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Ethyl maltol

analytical standard

Synonym(s):

2-Ethyl-3-hydroxy-4H-pyran-4-one, Ethyl maltol

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About This Item

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C7H8O3
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
140.14
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
85151701
PubChem Substance ID:
E Number:
E637
NACRES:
NA.24

grade

analytical standard

Quality Level

Assay

≥98.0% (GC)

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

mp

85-95 °C (lit.)

application(s)

cleaning products
cosmetics
flavors and fragrances
food and beverages
personal care

format

neat

SMILES string

CCC1=C(O)C(=O)C=CO1

InChI

1S/C7H8O3/c1-2-6-7(9)5(8)3-4-10-6/h3-4,9H,2H2,1H3

InChI key

YIKYNHJUKRTCJL-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Ethyl maltol is a synthetic homologue of maltol, often found as flavor enhancers and it contributes to the fragrance of commercials products such as cereals, breads, malt beverages, coffee, soybeans and chocolate milk.

Application

Ethyl maltol may be used as an analytical reference standard for the quantification of the analyte in food using spectrophotometric technique.
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Packaging

Bottomless glass bottle. Contents are inside inserted fused cone.

Pictograms

Exclamation mark

Signal Word

Warning

Hazard Statements

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Oral

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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Simultaneous kinetic-spectrophotometric determination of maltol and ethyl maltol in food samples by using chemometrics
Ni Y, et al.
Food Chemistry, 109(2), 431-438 (2008)
Simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of maltol, ethyl maltol, vanillin and ethyl vanillin in foods by multivariate calibration and artificial neural networks
Ni Y, et al.
Food Chemistry, 89(3), 465-473 (2005)
T J Simons
Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology, 423(3-4), 307-313 (1993-05-01)
Transport and binding of Pb2+ by human erythrocytes were examined for cell Pb contents in the 1-10 microM range, using the 203Pb isotope. Pb2+ crosses the erythrocyte membrane by the anion exchanger, and can also leave erythrocytes by a vanadate-sensitive
J A Levey et al.
Biochemical pharmacology, 37(10), 2051-2057 (1988-05-15)
Accumulation of radioactive iron (59Fe) into isolated fragments of rat small intestine in the presence of two hydroxypyrones, maltol and ethyl maltol, was compared with that in the presence of another chelator of iron(III), nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA). The characteristics of
Yuanyuan Yue et al.
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy, 96, 316-323 (2012-06-19)
This paper was designed to investigate the interaction of ethyl maltol with human serum albumin (HSA) under physiological condition by fluorescence, synchronous fluorescence, three-dimensional fluorescence, Fourier transformation infrared spectra, and molecular docking method. Spectroscopic analysis of the emission quenching at

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