4-Hydroxy-2-butanone

Basic information

Synonym(s)	KBD; 4-Hydroxybutan-2-One; 2-Butanone,4-hydroxy-; 3-Ketobutan-1-ol; 3-Oxo-1-butanol; 3-Oxobutanol; 4-Butanol-2-one; 4-hydroxy-2-butanon
Standard	Food grade
CAS	590-90-9
Purity	≥95.0%

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What is 4-Hydroxy-2-butanone？

Flavor raspberry ketone was mainly prepared with 4-hydroxy-2-butanone as intermediate at home and abroad. Raspberry ketone with quiet and tastefully laid out and fruit like nuances warm scent of spices, as apermanent aroma, it is a good agent, widely used in the strawberries, raspberries, pineapple, peach, such as edible flavor, as in the food flavoring fruit set fragrant scent, flavor agent, in the make-up of spices modulation for some fruit inside information and support for its exquisite also use it when sweet breath, has a broad market prospect.

This ketone can be used as the raw material of medicine, pesticide, can be generated 4-phenyl-2-butanone derivatives, is the intermediate of synthetic spice raspberry ketone, fennel acetone. 4-hydroxy-2-butanone is an important intermediate in pharmaceutical synthesis and an important raw material for other fine organic synthesis.

Application

1、Pharmaceutical intermediates

2、It is a kind of safe compound which has the effect of promoting the growth of animals. The product has both hydroxyl and carbonyl groups in the molecule, and it is easy to dehydrate in acid to produce methyl vinyl ketone, which can be used as raw material of medicine and pesticide; the derivatives of the product can be used as special solvent because of carbonyl groups; the product can react with aromatic hydrocarbons to produce derivatives of 4-phenyl-2-butanone, which is the raw material of antioxidant and fragrance, etc.