5-Methyl-2,3-hexanedione has a powerful oily-buttery odor with
a sweet taste in aqueous solution. May be synthesized by bromination of mesityl oxide, followed by treatment of the resulting
dibromide with sulfuric acid.
5-Methyl-2,3-hexanedione has a powerful, oily-buttery odor and a sweet taste in aqueous solution.
Reported found in coffee and American potato chips
ChEBI: 5-Methyl-2,3-hexanedione is an alpha-diketone.
A skin irritant. When
heated to decomposition it emits acrid
smoke and irritating fumes.
5-Methyl-2,3-hexanedione is obtained from the starting material 5-methyl-2-hexyne through an oxidation reaction. The synthetic route is as follows:
