A light, fatty-green aldehydic note with a fresh, slightly waxy character reminiscent of cut grass and orange peel oils. Rapidly volatile with a soft citrus-fatty facet that fades quickly.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1053.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Sweet-ethereal, diffusive odor.
This material serves mainly as an intermediate in the manufacture of other perfume chemicals, but it has occasionally been used in industrial masking odors on account of its volatility and sweet odor.
1) from Allyl chloride and n-Amyl magnesium bromide. 2) from Octanol with Iodine and red Phosphorous. 3) from Monosodium acetylene with Octyl iodide in liquid Ammonia at 40° C. under pressure.