Sebacic acid is a dicarboxylic acid with a very faint, waxy-fatty odor and a slightly sour, greasy undertone. It is essentially odorless in most contexts and functions more as a chemical intermediate than a fragrance material in its own right.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1252.
Prismatic crystals or leaflets, colorless crystals or white powder.
0.1% soluble in cold water, 2% soluble in boiling water, soluble in alcohol and most oils, but poorly soluble in terpenes.
Mild, bland, slightly fatty odor of excellent tenacity.
Many of its esters are used as diluents in perfumery or as plasticizers for resinoids.
1) by dry distillation of castor oil with sodium hydroxide. 2) by ozonization of undecylenic acid (the acid is also obtained from castor oil).