A powerful fruity ester with the characteristic ripe strawberry-pineapple aroma known as 'aldehyde C-16' or strawberry aldehyde. Sweet, jammy, and slightly green with a candied red-berry facet that dominates any accord it's used in.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 529.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Sweet, strawberry-raspberry-pear-like odor of moderate tenacity.
Fruity-caramellic, strawberry-pear-like taste in concentrations below 50 ppm.
This glycidic ester has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a modifier for the conventional glycidic esters, e.g. in lipstick perfumes and other fragrance types calling for mild-fruity notes.
Produced from Methyl-n-hexyl ketone with Ethyl monochloroacetate and Sodium methylate catalyst.