Heptylidene heptanal (also known as jasmine aldehyde or 2-hexyl-2-nonenal) has a powerful fatty-waxy aldehydic character with a green, slightly cucumber-like freshness. Over time it reveals a soft floral-jasmine undertone with a mild citrus-rind edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 640.
Yellowish oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fatty and very oily, slightly green, but overall rancid type of odor.
Occasionally used in masking odors for industrial purposes.
Produced by condensation of 2 Mol. Heptaldehyde as a side reaction in the manufacturing of Amylcinnamic aldehyde.