4-Hexanolide 695-06-7

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Product Name:4-Hexanolide
Synonyms：4-HYDROXYHEXANOIC ACID G-LACTONE;4-hexanolide;4-Ethyl-4-hydroxybutanoic acid lactone;GAMMA-HEXALACTONE;GAMMA-HEXANOLACTONE;Dihydro-5-ethyl-2(3H)-furanone;gamma-Ethylbutyrolactone;gamma-Ethyl-n-butyrolactone
CAS:695-06-7

MF:C6H10O2
MW:114.14
gamma-Hexalactone has a warm, powerful, herbaceous, sweet odor and a sweet, coumarin-caramel taste. May be prepared by reduction of sorbic acid using Zn, Sn, or SnCl2 and concentrated HCL in acetic acid solution at 85°C; from ethylene oxide and sodio-malonic ester; also from propyl alcohol and methylacrylate in the presence of di-tert-butyl peroxide.
γ-Hexalactone has a sweet, herbaceous, warm, powerful, odor, with a sweet, coumarin-caramel taste. This compound is also described to have odor as sweet, creamy, lactonic, tobacco and coumarin-like with green coconut nuances.
Reported found in apple juice, apricot, orange juice, guava, raisin, papaya, peach, pineapple, berries, asparagus, peas, potato, tomato, breads, cheeses, butter, milk, chicken fat, cooked beef, cooked pork, beer, cognac, grape wines, cocoa, tea, filberts, pecans, passion fruit, Japanese plum, beans, mushroom, starfruit, mango, dried fig, prickly pear, licorice, soursop, Cape gooseberry, nectarines, quince, pawpaw and other sources.