CAS number：6485-40-1
molecular formula：C10H14O
molecular weight：150.22
EINECS number：229-352-5

English synonyms

(L)-(-)-P-MENTHA-6,8-DIEN-2-ONE;L-P-MENTHA-6,8-DIEN-2-ONE;LAEVO-CARVEONE;L(-)-CARVONE;L-CARVONE;L-1-METHYL-4-ISOPROPENYL-6-CYCLOHEXEN-2-ONE;FEMA 2249;(-)-CARVONE

Related categories

Food additives; Edible flavors (flavor enhancers); Natural equivalent flavors and artificial flavors; Plant extracts; Nutritional research; Chinese medicine reference substances; Flavor and fragrance; Chemical raw materials; ;Monocyclic Monoterpenes; Terpenes; fungicides; raw materials; pesticide intermediates; spices; plant biochemical extracts; pharmaceutical raw materials and intermediates; pharmaceuticals, pesticides and dye intermediates; agent; chemical material; monomer fragrance

Chemical properties

Colorless to pale straw yellow oil with spearmint aroma. The boiling point of 231 ° C, the flash point of 93.5 ° C. Soluble in propylene glycol, vegetable oil and mineral oil, miscible in ethanol, insoluble in glycerol and water.
The natural product is the main ingredient of spearmint oil (up to 70%).

Use

●  spices. Mainly used for the preparation of spearmint flavor.

●  L-carvone, alias L-(-)-carvone, spearmint oil, 2,3-dimethyl-5-isopropenyl-cyclohexanone-1, pale yellow clear liquid, insoluble in water. It is used as a flavor additive for foods such as chewing gum. It is the main raw material for gummies and spices. It is also used in medicines and toothpastes.

●  For cooling booster, spearmint, caraway.

●  It is also used in medicine, as a poultice, a cooling agent, a flavoring spice and a blending spice for toothpaste, etc. It is used as a cooling accelerator and spearmint.

●  Used as chiral raw material

Production method

●  It is isolated from spearmint oil by neutral sulfite method or hydrogen sulfide derivative method.
Synthesized from d-ene.