An extremely pungent, sulfurous aromatic thiol with a harsh burnt-rubber and gassy character. Diluted heavily it can lend a smoky, animalic, almost coffee-like or leathery facet, but in isolation it is repellent and skunky. Only usable in trace amounts.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1305.
Colorless or pale yellowish mobile liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Highly purified material has a very powerful, but initially not sulfuraceous or garlic-like odor, yet this garlic-note will appear eventually when the material is exposed to air.
The taste is rather sweet, nondescript at concentrations below 5 ppm.
The title material has found some use in flavor compositions as a trace ingredient in imitation coffee flavor.
It is approved for use as a synthetic flavor chemical by the American F.D.A.
Produced by reduction of benzene sulfonyl-chloride with nascent hydrogen.