ALDEHYDE C-18

Public-database records for ALDEHYDE C-18 (CAS 104-61-0), reproduced here for independent cross-checking.

Safety classification and hazard statements

Regulatory listings

Physical description and handling notes

• CBI; Liquid; Dry Powder; Liquid
• Colorless to pale straw-yellow liquid with an odor of coconut; [HSDB]
• colourless to slightly yellow liquid with a coconut-like odour
• Colorless to slightly yellow liquid
• Strong odor reminiscent of coconut
• Taste characteristics at 10 ppm: coconut, creamy, waxy with fatty milky notes

Reported physical properties

How this substance is indexed

Documented uses

• Reportedly found in peaches, apricots, roasted barley, rum, and tomatoes; Used as flavoring and fragrance ingredient; [HSDB] Used in the US as insecticide, insect and mammal repellent, and mosquito larvicide; [Reference #1]
• Table: Reported uses (ppm): (Flavor and Extract Manufacturers' Association, 1994) [Table#5371]
• Flavoring Agents -> JECFA Flavorings Index
• Flavouring Agent -> FLAVOURING_AGENT -> JECFA Functional Classes
• Information on 120 consumer products that contain Gamma-nonalactone in the following categories is provided:
• By reacting methylacrylate and hexanol in the presence of ditertiarybutyl peroxide; by condensation of undecylenic acid and malonic acid by lactonization of nonenoic acid.

Names this substance appears under

104-61-0; Gamma-nonalactone; gamma-Nonanolactone; Prunolide; 2(3H)-Furanone, dihydro-5-pentyl-; gamma-Nonanolide; gamma-Pelargolactone; Cocos aldehyde; Nonan-1,4-olide; Coconut aldehyde; gamma-Nonylactone; 1,4-Nonalolide; apricolin; 4-Pentyl-butanolide; Aldehyde C-18; 4-Nonalactone

Computed molecular descriptors

Database abstract

ALDEHYDE C-18 · CAS 104-61-0 · C9H16O2. UNII I1XGH66S8P. 沸点: BP: 134 °C at 12 mm Hg; 沸点: 121-122 °C (6 mmHg); 密度: 0.958-0.966 at 25 °C.

Source: PubChem / Wikidata; the batch COA governs where values differ.