Likely a gamma-lactone-type material with a soft, creamy, peachy-coconut character and a mild sweet-waxy undertone. Rounded and diffusive rather than sharp, sitting comfortably in the fruity-creamy heart of a composition.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 716.
Colorless oily liquid.
It is extremely important as an intermediate in the manufacture of many interesting perfume and flavor chemicals. It is also a breakdown product in Nature’s Lignin decomposition, and therefore present, mostly in the shape of derivatives, in numerous natural products.
The subject aldehyde is produced by many ways, e.g.: 1) from Phenol in the manufacture of Salicylic aldehyde (which is the ortho-isomer). 2) from para-Aminobenzaldehyde by Diazo-reaction. 3) from Phenol and anhydrous Zinc cyanide in Benzene, followed by hydrolysis.