A sweet, slightly waxy fruity-floral aromachemical with a soft balsamic undertone reminiscent of ripe stone fruit and hawthorn blossom. Less sharp and more rounded than acetophenone, with a mild honeyed, almost powdery character emerging on the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1370.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fresh-fruity, sweet and moderately tenacious odor. The fruity notes are fresher, less floral than those of the n-Valerophenone.
The title material has been suggested for use in perfume compositions. If it were available at a cost competitive to that of the large-volume soap-fragrance chemicals, it could undoubtedly find extensive use as a sweetener and modifier in many fragrance types, floral and non-floral. It is very stable in alkali, and compatible with most of the conventionally employed soap fragrance chemicals.
1) from iso-Butyl phenylcarbinol by reduction. 2) from Benzonitrile plus iso-Butyl magnesium chloride, followed by hydration.