A sharp, ethereal fruity ester with pineapple and green apple facets. Diffusive and juicy on top, with a slightly herbal-green undertone typical of methallyl esters. Fades quickly, leaving a fresh fruity trace.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 792.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, penetrating and slightly gassy, overall fruity-ethereal odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
Powerful and rather sharp-acrid taste, except in dilutions below 20 ppm, when the taste is overall sweet, fruity, somewhat sharp but pleasantly reminiscent of Pineapple, Apple, Plum, etc.
This ester, only rarely offered commercially, and not generally approved for food, has found some use in flavor compositions, particularly imitation Pineapple, Apple, 'Tropical-fruit' complexes, and in variations of Plum flavor. Concentrations are usually very low, about 0.1 to 0.3 ppm in the finished product.
Produced by direct esterification of beta-Methylallylalcohol with Butyric acid under azeotropic conditions.