Vinyl acetate is a highly volatile monomer with a sharp, sweetish ethereal-solvent odor reminiscent of ethyl acetate but more pungent and irritating. It is not a perfumery material — it is an industrial monomer used to make PVA polymers — and has no meaningful use in fine fragrance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1386.
Colorless mobile liquid.
2% soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Fruity-ethereal, rather sharp, but sweet odor of considerable diffusive power and very poor tenacity.
The ester, as such, has little or no application in perfumes, and probably no mission in flavor compositions.
The title material is briefly mentioned here because it is permitted for use in food products in the shape of a modifier for food starches.
Produced from Acetylene plus Acetic acid over a Catalyst.