5-Hydroxy-4-octanone

Sweet and slightly pungent-buttery-nut-like odor. Sweet buttery taste with a pleasant oily mildness at concentrations below 5 ppm. The flavor is not as sharp as that of Dibutyryl or that of Acetyl caproyl (C8H15O2).

5-Hydroxy-4-octanone has a sweet, slightly pungent, buttery, nutlike odor and a sweet, buttery, oily taste. May be prepared by reacting sodium metal with ethyl butyrate in boiling ether or in the same fashion starting from methyl butyrate.

5-Hydroxy-4-octanone has a sweet, lightly pungent, butternut-like odor and a sweet, butter, oily taste

Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Sweet and slightly pungent-buttery-nut-like odor.

Reported found in cocoa

By reacting sodium metal with ethyl butyrate in boiling ether or in the same fashion starting from methyl butyrate.

ChEBI: 5-Hydroxy-4-octanone is a monosaccharide.