A pungent, roasted-green pyridine derivative with a distinctly nutty, hazelnut-like character and an earthy, almost coffee-adjacent facet. Sharp and penetrating in isolation, with a slightly fatty, vegetal undertone reminiscent of galbanum or raw hazelnut skins.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1204.
Pale straw-colored or almost colorless oily liquid
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Powerful, sweet-nauseating, but in dilution heavy-herbaceous odor
Suggested for use in perfume compositions, but recommended experimentation with the alpha-isomer instead
Produced by Wolff-Kishner reduction of gamma-Propionyl pyridine It has also been prepared from Pyridine and n-Propylbromide, but this method yields a mixture of alpha- and gamma-isomers.