Flavorings amyl acetate

Amyl Acetate 628-63-7 Solvent or Flavoring agent Nail polish, polish remover, leather pohsh, shoe pohsh, perfume odorant, food Systemic effects mildly toxic skin and eye irritation flammable... 

The acetates of most alcohols are also commercially available and have diverse uses. Because of their high solvent power, ethyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, amyl, and isoamyl acetates are used in cellulose nitrate and other lacquer-type coatings (see CELLULOSE, esters). Butyl and hexyl acetates are excellent solvents for polyurethane coating systems (see Coatings Urethane polymers). Ethyl, isobutyl, amyl, and iso amyl acetates are frequendy used as components in flavoring (see Flavors AND SPICES), and isopropyl, benzyl, octyl, geranyl, linalyl, and methyl acetates are important additives in perfumes (qv). 

Use Flavoring, insect repellent, nitrocellulose lacquers and thinners, substitute for methyl amyl acetate. 

The distinction between naturally and artificially flavored food used to be as simple as the difference between raspberries and hard candies flavored with amyl acetate. In the future the choice is more likely to be between genetically engineered botanical material, physically and enzymatically processed, and a manufactured food with added natural flavoring complexes, prepared by thermal and enzymatic processes, or their precursors. 

As discussed under alcohols, esters are the condensation products of alcohols and acids. They also are good organic. solvents, insoluble in water. Many found in nature arc flavorful and sweet smelling amyl acetate is the fragrant component of banana oil ( amyl is a traditional name for the 5-carbon... 

Banana olt CH3C02CsHii Amyl acetate. Used as flavoring, solvent etc. 

Amyl acetate ( -mil AS-uh-tate) is a colorless liquid with a distinctive banana-like flavor and odor. Three major isomers of amyl acetate exist normal (rc-amyl), secondary Uec-amyl), and isoamyl (3-methyl-i-butyl) acetate. Isomers are two or more forms of a chemical compound with the same molecular formula, but different structural formulas and different chemical and physical properties. As an example, the boiling points of the three isomers of amyl acetate are 149.2°C (300.6°F), 142.o°C (287.6° ), and 140.o°C (284.0° ), respectively. Although the amyl acetates are probably best known as flavoring agents because of their distinctive banana-like flavor, they all have a number of interesting industrial applications also. 

Amyl acetate is used as a flavoring agent in the United States and several other countries. It is often blended with other esters to produce flavors that are more fruity and rounded. The compound is also used to flavor products such as chewing gum. 

Cloudiness and off-flavors. Volatile phenols (4-vinylguaiacol), ethyl acetate, amyl acetate (higher alcohols). Aerobic spoilage potential limited to beers stored in the presence of air. However, under suitable conditions, they grow rapidly and often give rise to films on the surface of the beer as well as resulting in the production of hazes and off-flavors. 

Two replications of MS-Nose evaluations with intensity scaling for each flavor solution were conducted in the same session, using the measuring sequence water, 4 flavor solutions (H-M-L-M) water, 4 flavor solutions (L-M-H-M) water. Linalool, cit-3-hexenol, and methyl cinnamate were measured on one day ethyl butyrate and amyl acetate were measured on another day a month later. Ion chromatograms were transformed to release curves in Excel and integrated. The parameter °log(Area) of the in vivo aroma release peak was used for all analyses in this chapter, although Imax and Tmax were also obtained from the release curves. The means and standard deviations for interaction terms (flavor component presentation order) from an unbalanced analysis of variance (ANOVA) were determined for both the MS-Nose data and the panelists intensity scores. 

The SRP N = 25) evaluated all of the solutions described in Experiment 1 by using the audio method for intensity profiling [6]. Two procedures, defined by Lawless et al. [3] as either simple contrast or reversed-pair contrast, were followed, with the exception that only one combination of procedure and condition occurred in any given session. Thus, for the contrast procedure either condition HM or condition LM was used for the reversed-pair procedure, either condition MH or ML. Samples (15mL) were served under red lighting in plastic cups coded with three-digit numbers. Panelists emptied the entire contents of each sample into their mouths and swallowed the solutions. The descriptors for which retronasal flavor intensity was measured were candy (amyl acetate), green (c -3-hexenol), fruity (ethyl butyrate), linalool (linalool), and cinnamon metallic (methyl cinnamate). 

Hazardous Decomp. Prods. Heated to decomp., emits acrid smoke and fumes Uses Solvent for paints nitrocellulose lacquers and thinners insect repellent synthetic flavoring agent In foods and pharmaceuticals fragrance In cosmetics substitute for methyl amyl acetate Features Grape-like flavor... 

Esters.— The simplest class of compounds present in essential oils are the esters or ethereal salts (p. 140). In our early discussion of these compounds in the aliphatic series it was stated that the odor and flavor of common fruits is probably due to ester compounds and that certain empirical mixtures of esters are used as artificial fruit essences. Artificial apple essence, for example, may be prepared by mixing certain proportions of ethyl nitrite, ethyl acetate and amyl valerate with chloroform, aldehyde and alcohol. An example of an essential oil which consists of a single ester is oil of wintergreen. vAdxh is the methyl ester of salicylic acid, ortho-hydroxy benzoic acid (p. 714). 

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