Ortho-tolualdehyde has a pungent, aldehydic odor with a distinct bitter-almond and cherry-pit character, edged with a green, slightly floral aromatic quality. In dilution it lends a sharp, sparkling lift reminiscent of benzaldehyde but drier and more herbaceous.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1318.
Colorless oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm and sweet Benzaldehyde-type odor of moderate tenacity.
It finds a little use in perfume compositions, but the para-isomer is generally considered more interesting.
1) from ortho-Xylene by oxidation. 2) from ortho-Methyl benzylchloride by hydrolysis and oxidation. 3) from ortho-Tolunitrile. 4) from ortho-Xylylbromide plus Nitroporopane in presence of Sodium ethoxide.