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US 4,051,164 AGranted
Enol ester of .alpha.-diketones
AssigneeGeneral Foods Corporation
InventorsJo-Fen Tung Kung, Martin Franklin Epstein
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Abstract
Flavoring agents, a method of imparting to foodstuffs a pleasant buttery caramel flavor and aroma by adding thereto a lower alkyl enol ester such as an acetate ester of aliphatic and alicyclic .alpha.-diketones.
Claims2
The silyl ether of the enol of pentane-2,3-dione which imparts to foodstuffs a buttery, caramel flavor.
The trimethylsilyl ether of the enol of pentane-2,3-dione.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.