A sharp, penetrating ketonic odor with camphoraceous and peppermint-like facets. Has a slightly sweet, herbal-green undertone reminiscent of pennyroyal or wintergreen. Volatile and diffusive, quickly flashing off the blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1144.
Colorless liquid.
2.5% soluble in water, 2.5% soluble in alcohol, soluble in some oils, poorly soluble in most other oils.
Powerful and diffusive, ethereal-minty-camphoraceous, warm-sweet odor of poor tenacity.
This ketone has sometimes been used as a masking agent in fragrances for industrial masking.
1) by distillation of Pinacolhydrate with diluted Sulfuric acid. 2) from Pinacol dimethylether by heating with Boron trioxide at 140° C.