Methyl benzoate

Methyl benzoate is a colorless to pale yellow liquid with a pleasant, floral (often described as ylang-ylang or fruity) odor and moderate volatility. It is an aromatic ester, classified as an organic chemical intermediate. Its boiling point is approximately 199 °C, and it is sparingly soluble in water but miscible with most organic solvents. Methyl benzoate serves primarily as a building block in organic synthesis—especially for the production of benzoyl chloride, benzoic acid, and substituted benzoates—and is used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and dyes. It also finds application as a flavoring agent in food and fragrance formulations, and as a solvent or plasticizer in certain specialty coatings and polymer systems.

It can be used as the solvents of cellulose esters, cellulose ethers, synthetic resins and rubber as well as the dyeing auxiliary agent of polyester fiber. It can be used for the preparation of flavors. It can be used as the solvent in the microscopic analysis as well as the solvent for cellulose. GB 2760-1996 provides it as allowable food flavors. It can be mainly used for the preparation of strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, cherry, vanilla beans, nuts and rum flavor.It is commonly used spices for formulating ylang, tuberose scent type. It can also be applied to daffodils, lavender, clove and savory type of Spanish leather. Being used in combination with rock rose product, oak moss or tree moss as well as vetiver oil, it can be used for preparing fern type to achieve pleasant scent. IT can be applied to inexpensive detergent, bad-smell masking agents as well as industrial flavor. It can also be widely applied to food flavors such as strawberry type and so on.For flavor preparation, it is also used as a cellulose ester, cellulose ether solvent, resin, rubber, etc.It can be used for organic synthesis; for the solvents of cellulose esters, cellulose ether, resin, rubber and so on; it can also be used as spice with rich aroma of wintergreen oil and cananga oil. It can be used for preparation of soap and cosmetics-purpose artificial ylang oil and sesame oil; it can also be used as food flavor for the preparation of strawberry, pineapple, cherries and rum.
It is colorless oily liquid with strong floral and cherry aromas. It is miscible with ethyl ether, soluble in methanol, ethyl ether but insoluble in water and glycerol.

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