A highly volatile, ethereal solvent-like material (methylal) with a sharp, slightly sweet, chloroform-adjacent character. Fleeting on a blotter, leaving little behind beyond a faint green-sweet whisper.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 573.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Soluble in water, miscible with alcohol, soluble in some oils, not in all.
It has an extremely diffusive, ethereal odor, resembling that of Methyl formate or Ethyl nitrite, briefly: ethereal.
This acetal which, to the author’s knowledge, is not used as such in perfumes or flavors, is mentioned because it is not only a good solvent and used for that purpose in extractions, but it is also an intermediate in making other acetals from Formaldehyde.
Produced from Chloromethyl methylether plus Sodium methoxide.