Dimethyl malonate has a light, sweet fruity-estery character reminiscent of apple and pear peel with a faint winey-green undertone. It is fairly volatile and fades quickly, leaving a soft sugary-fruity trace.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 900.
Colorless liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in propylene glycol, alcohol and oils.
Ethereal-fruity, relatively diffusive odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
It adds fresh-ethereal green notes to Apple, Gooseberry, Rhubarb, Apricot, Banana, etc.
This ester finds limited use in flavor compositions, where it may substitute or modify the Ethylester, somewhat more common in use.
Produced by direct esterification of Methanol with Malonic acid using azeotropic conditions.