Monoacetin (glyceryl monoacetate) is essentially odorless — a viscous, hygroscopic liquid used as a solvent, humectant, or plasticizer rather than for its scent. Any perceptible note is a very faint, slightly fatty/oily impression with no distinctive character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 977.
Colorless or pale yellowish oily liquid.
Miscible with water, alcohol, propylene glycol and some oils, but only few. Insoluble in terpenes.
Faint, musty-sour odor, varying with the age and quality of the material. The commercial grade has almost always a sour note.
This ester is mentioned briefly because it has found some use as a flavor solvent (rarely as a perfume solvent).
This ester is mentioned briefly because it has found some use as a flavor solvent (rarely as a perfume solvent).
From glycerol and acetic acid with phosphoric acid catalyst. For 1-Monoacetin, from iso-propylideneglycerol plus acetylchloride, followed by hydrolysis. For 2-Monoacetin, from 3-benzylidene glycerol by acetylation with acetic anhydride in pyridine, followed by hydrogenation.