Methyl oxalate is a mildly sweet, fruity-balsamic ester with a slightly waxy, glue-like undertone. It reads as a soft, generic fruity-sweet note rather than a distinctive character, and is more often encountered as a chemical intermediate than a mainstream perfumery material.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 924.
Colorless monoclinic tabloid crystals.
6° soluble in water (but hydrolyzes easily). Soluble in alcohol and oils.
Although virtually odorless, this ester has occasionally been used in perfumes for its peculiar 'lifting' effect which is not accompanied by an additional odor or perceptible note.
This ester has occasionally been used in perfumes for its peculiar 'lifting' effect which is not accompanied by an additional odor or perceptible note.
Produced by azeotropic type esterification of Methanol with Oxalic acid.