A soft fruity-green ester with a creamy, slightly waxy character reminiscent of unripe pear skin and green apple. Milder and rounder than typical hexanoate esters, with a subtle dairy-lactonic nuance from the 3-hydroxy group.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 891.
Colorless liquid.
Oily-ethereal, powerful, fruity-winey odor of considerable radiation.
This hydroxyester has been developed mainly for the purpose of 'reconstituting' the flavor in processed Orange juice.
The acid is prepared from Methyl-n-propylketone plus alpha-Bromoacetic ester (or alpha-Chloroacetic ester) in presence of Zinc (or Magnesium).