ETHYL CYCLOHEXYLACETATE

Chemical Properties

clear colorless liquid. Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Powerful fruity odor of Raspberry-Apple type, but in no way a “natural” fruit odor. Moderate tenacity.

Uses

Ethyl Cyclohexylacetate is used in fruit and Honey imitation flavors at concentrations equivalent to about 20 ppm in the finished product. It acts partly as a blender, partly as a tixative for some of the more volatile alifatic fruit esters, or the lower Phenylacetates in Honey bases.

Synthesis Reference(s)

The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 57, p. 7194, 1992 DOI: 10.1021/jo00052a038
Tetrahedron Letters, 23, p. 4321, 1982 DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)85590-2

Synthesis

Ethyl Cyclohexylacetate is produced by esterification of Cyciohexyl ethanol with Acetic acid or Acetic anhydride.