Chemical Properties
2,3-Octanedione has a “warmed-over” flavor (off-flavor).
Occurrence
Reportedly present in fish, turkey, chicken, beef, lamb, mutton, coffee, tea, peanut, mushroom, prickly pear
and lavage leaf.
Uses
The title Octane-2,3-dione is used on a very limited
scale in perfume compositions, mainly as a
trace component in topnote compositions,
}vhere it gives interesting effects in the presence
of Civet and Phenylacetic acid, or certain
Labdanum products, etc. It is also of good
use in Ylang Ylang compositions and in many
other flower bases.
Definition
ChEBI: 2,3-Octanedione is an alpha-diketone.
Synthesis Reference(s)
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 59, p. 6338, 1994
DOI: 10.1021/jo00100a040
