ZINGIBERENE

Chemical Properties

Colorless oily liquid. Sp.Gr. 0.87. B.P. 270°C. Freshly prepared material has a warm, woody-spicy and very tenacious odor with a peculiar deep sweetness.

Uses

Since it is the major component of Ginger oil, and the "oxygenated" components of that oil have been found to be rather common and available materials, there could be a future interest in the subject material for reconstitution of Ginger oil if and when it becomes scarce. Furthermore, it has potential interest to the perfumer in its warm-balsamic, almost "Oriental" character, which may remind an observer of Opopanax or Bisabolene.

Solubility in organics

Soluble in alcohol and oils.