clear colorless to yellow liquid
Intermediates of Liquid Crystals
It can be used to produce 1,1'-p-phenylene-bis-ethanone. This reaction will need reagent air, cobalt naphthenate. The reaction temperature is 125°C.
4-Ethylacetophenone is one of the attractive components of a carob-peanut extract that elicited a positive behavioral response from Oryzaephilus surinamensis, S. granarius and C. ferrugineus.
4-Ethylacetophenone is prepared from para-Ethylphenol plus Acetylchloridewith Aluminum chloride in an inert solvent (Fnedel-Craft’s reaction).