Chemical Properties
Colorless to pale yellow liquid or crystalline solid
Chemical Properties
Phenethyl phenylacetate has a heavy, sweet, floral and balsamic odor, somewhat rosy and a sweet, honey-like flavor.
Chemical Properties
Phenylethyl Phenylacetate has been identified in, for
example, the flower concrete of Michelia champaca L. It is a colorless liquid or
in the form of crystals (mp 26.5°C), which have a heavy, sweet, rose or hyacinth
odor and a distinct honey note. The ester is used particularly in floral fragrance
compositions and as a fixative.
Occurrence
Has apparently not been reported to occur in nature.
Definition
ChEBI: Phenethyl phenylacetate is a member of benzenes.
Preparation
By esterification of phenylacetic acid with phenethyl alcohol in the presence of H2SO4; also by direct esterification in the
presence of gaseous HCl.
Taste threshold values
Taste characteristics at 25 ppm: honey, floral, green, rose, cocoa, hay and tropical body.
Flammability and Explosibility
Nonflammable
