A powerful green-fatty aldehyde with a sharp citrus-peel edge and a slightly cucumber-like, oily freshness. On dry-down it softens into a waxy, slightly herbal-green note reminiscent of crushed leaves and orange rind.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1040.
Colorless or very pale yellowish oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful and penetrating green-vegetable, grassy and somewhat fatty odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
This aldehyde has been suggested for use in 'green' bases, e.g. Galbanum compositions.
Produced by self-condensation of propionaldehyde and subsequent condensation of the resulting 2-Methyl-2-pentenal with acetaldehyde to yield the title diolefinic aldehyde.