gamma-hexalactone

Full Material List
5-ethyloxolan-2-one

Identifiers

FEMA 2556
CAS 695-06-7
EINECS 211-778-8
Synonyms
  • g- caprolactone
  • gamma- caprolactone
  • dehydrotonkalide
  • 4- ethyl butan-4-olide
  • ethyl butyrolactone
  • gamma- ethyl butyrolactone
  • 5- ethyl dihydro-2(3H)-furanone
  • 5- ethyl tetrahydro-2-furanone
  • 4- ethyl-4-butanolide
  • 4- ethyl-4-hydroxybutanoic acid lactone
  • 5- ethyl-dihydro-furan-2-one
  • gamma- ethyl-gamma-butyrolactone
  • gamma- ethyl-N-butyrolactone
  • 4- ethylbutan-4-olide
  • 5- ethyldihydro-2(3H)-furanone
  • 5- ethyloxolan-2-one
  • 5- ethyltetrahydro-2-furanone
  • furan-2(3H)-one, 5-ethyldihydro-
  • furan-2(5H)-one, 3,4-dihydro-5-ethyl-
  • 2(3H)- furanone, 5-ethyldihydro-
  • gamma- hexalactone
  • gamma hexalactone
  • gamma- hexalactone FCC
  • hexalactone gamma
  • gamma- hexalactone natural
  • hexan-4-olide
  • hexano-1,4-lactone
  • gamma- hexanolactone
  • 4- hexanolide
  • hexanolide-1,4
  • 4- hydroxyhexanoic acid gamma-lactone
  • 4- hydroxyhexanoic acid lactone
  • tonkalide
JECFA Food Flavoring 223
JECFA Food Additive N/A
DG SANTE Food Flavourings 10.021 hexano-1,4-lactone
DG SANTE Food Contact Materials N/A
FDA UNII J16NAT1G41
CoE Number 2254
XlogP3-AA 0.70 (est)
Molecular Weight 114.1441
Molecular Formula C6 H10 O2

Organoleptic

Organoleptic Notes
  • 1. Odor Type: tonka Odor Strength:medium ,recommend smelling in a 10.00 % solution or less
  • Substantivity:128 hour(s) at 100.00 %
  • herbal coconut sweet coumarinic tobacco
  • Odor Description:at 10.00 % in dipropylene glycol. herbal coconut sweet coumarin tobaccoLuebke, William tgsc, (2004)
  • Odor sample from: CA Aromatics Company Inc.
  • sweet creamy lactonic tobacco coumarinic green coconut
  • Odor Description:Sweet, creamy, lactonic, tobacco and coumarin-like with green coconut nuancesMosciano, Gerard P&F 17, No. 3, 57, (1992)
Odor tonka
herbal, coconut, sweet, coumarinic, tobacco, creamy, lactonic, green
Flavor creamy
sweet, creamy, vanilla, green, lactonic, powdery,

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Properties

Food Chemicals Codex Listed Yes
Appearance colorless to pale yellow clear liquid (est)
Assay 98.00 to 100.00
Specific Gravity 1.02000 to 1.02500 @ 25.00 °C.
Lbs/Gal (est) 8.487 to 8.529
Refractive Index 1.43700 to 1.44200 @ 20.00 °C.
Melting Point -18.00 °C. @ 760.00 mm Hg
Boiling Point 215.50 °C. @ 760.00 mm Hg
Flash Point 209.00 °F. TCC ( 98.33 °C. )
Acid Value 1.00 max. KOH/g
Vapor Pressure 0.152000 mmHg @ 25.00 °C. (est)
Vapor Density >1 ( Air = 1 )
logP (o/w) 0.413 (est)
Soluble In
  • alcohol
  • dipropylene glycol
  • propylene glycol
  • water, slightly
  • water, 3.219e+004 mg/L @ 25 °C (est)
  • water
Occurrence
  • apricot fruit
  • bread
  • cloudberry fruit
  • cocoa
  • filbert roasted filbert
  • grape dried grape
  • malpighia glabra l. fruit oil @ 0.60%
  • milk
  • passion fruit
  • peach fruit
  • pineapple fruit
  • plum fruit
  • raspberry red raspberry fruit
  • strawberry wild strawberry fruit
  • tea green tea with jasmin
  • tomato