Chemical Properties
Colorless liquid; medicinal phenolic aroma
Occurrence
Reported found in Alpinia galanga oil (0.20%), bay leaf oil (<0.01–15.51%), bay leaf oil anise (0.8%), bay leaf
oil clove (17.1%), and betel leaf.
Uses
4-Allylphenol is a useful building block naturally occurring in Syzygium aromaticum leaves. 4-Allylphenol has been used in the synthetic, regioselective preparation of gamma-lactones.
Definition
ChEBI: A phenylpropanoid that is phenol substituted by a prop-2-enyl group at position 4.
Aroma threshold values
High strength odor; phenolic type; recommend smelling in a 0.10% solution or less
