Beta-Hydrindone (2-indanone / 1-indanone family ketone) has a warm, slightly animalic-musky odor with a fatty-sweet, faintly indolic and floral undertone. On a blotter it reads as a soft, radiant musk-like body with a hint of naphthalenic warmth rather than a sharp aromatic note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 708.
Colorless needle-like crystals.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Rather weak, sweet-medicinal, moderately tenacious odor with a faint resemblance to notes in Civet. Overall woody-hydrocarbon-like.
This material is mentioned mainly for the completion and illustration of the series in which alpha- and beta-Hydrindone have been emphasized as having potential interest to the perfume industry. It is the author's impression that the two materials are not used in perfumes or flavors.
Produced by (several methods) e. g. boiling Indene oxide with diluted Sulfuric acid.