A clean, radiant lily-of-the-valley aldehyde with a bright green-floral character. Opens with a fresh, slightly watery muguet facet backed by a soft aldehydic-cyclamen edge, drying down to a delicate airy floralcy. Commonly known as Florhydral (Givaudan).AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1194.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Although the odor of this aldehyde is not as fresh, powerful, penetrating and diffusive as that of Cyclamen aldehyde, there is considerable similarity in the odor of the two.
1) from para-n-Propylbenzaldehyde plus Propionic aldehyde, followed by hydrogenation. 2) from para-n-Propyl benzaldehyde plus Methyl malonic ester and Sodium ethoxide, followed by saponification of the resulting ester, removal of the alcohol, acidification to release the acid, decarboxylation to produce the new acid, from which the title aldehyde is produced with Formic acid in gas form.