Ethyl butyrate

  • Ethyl butyrate
  • Butanoate
  • Ethyl butanoate

Colorless liquid with a pineapple -like odor

Liquid

0.88 g · cm -3 ( 20 ° C)

-93 ° C

121 ° C.

17 hPa ( 20 ° C)

Poorly in water ( 6.3 g · l-1 at 20 ° C)

1.3898 (25 ° C)

Attention

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Butyrate is a carboxylic acid esters with a distinctive pineapple scent. Because of the pronounced aromatic smell the esters of short-chain carboxylic acids are also called fruit esters ( see also fruit flavor ). It is produced by esterification of butyric acid with ethanol. Will use butyrate as a flavoring in the perfume and liqueur production.

CAS registry number Vapor pressure Dangerous Substances Directive (67/548/EEC) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Integrated Authority File
156075
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