4-Methylthio-2-butanone

4-(Methylthio)-2-butanone has a flavor like arrowhead. It is sweet, sulfurous, and fruity. May be prepared from methylvinyl ketone and methylmercaptan; from methylvinyl ketone and methyl-Ws (methy lthio)aluminum.

4-Methylthio-2-butanone has a flavor similar to arrowhead: sweet, sulfurous and fruity

Colorless liquid

Reported found in kohlrabi.

From methylvinyl ketone and methylmercaptan; from methylvinyl ketone and methyl-bis (methylthio)aluminum.

ChEBI: 4-(Methylthio)-2-butanone is a ketone.

Taste characteristics at 15 ppm: sulfureous, potato, earthy, vegetative, fatty, fishy, metallic and mushroom.