D-CARVONE
REFERENCES
CAS Number: 2244-16-8
FEMA Number: 2249
EINECS Number: 218-827-2
Product Code: AFA002006

OVERVIEW

Carvone is a very important monoterpene ketone for the flavor industry that occurs in several essential oils, in both the racemic and the optically active forms. It forms two enantiomers: R-(–)-carvone, or L-carvone and its mirror image, S-(+)-carvone, or D-carvone. Both forms of carvone are widely used as flavoring agents for different foods. They are both natural and artificial at the same time.

d- carvone is the main constituent (50-60 percent) of caraway seed and dill seed oil (Anethum graveolens L.). Dill herb oil contains a lesser percentage. l-carvone is the principal constituent of spearmint oil (up to 70 per cent), and also occurs in kuromoji oil. dl-carvone occurs in ginger grass oil.

Carvone is a colouless oil possessing a marked odour typical of caraway seeds. It is also available in a healthy percentage in mandarin orange peel oil. When composed to light for several months, carvone is converted to an isomeric crystalline ketone, the so-called camphor-carvone.

Dextro Carvone (d-carvone), the S-isomer of chiral carvone, principal constituent (50-70%) of oil from caraway seeds (carum carvi), is a powerful caraway smelling top note. It finds usage as carminative as well as in perfumes and soaps. The oil is also used as a flavoring agent in beverages, liquors and liqueurs, ice cream and other frozen desserts, baked goods. Its therapeutic properties include as astringent, disinfectant, diuretic, cardiac, carminative, digestive, expectorant, stomachic, tonic, stimulant. It also acts as a good expectorant, helps in clearing cases of bronchitis, coughs and bronchial asthma. It is also helpful in laryngitis, sore throats as well as in flushing toxins out.
 
APPEARANCE
Colourless to pale yellow liquid
 
ODOUR
Powerful caraway smelling top note

IUPAC NAME
(S)-2-methyl-5-prop-1-en-2-ylcyclohex-2-en-1-one

CAS NUMBER
2244-16-8

FEMA NUMBER
2249

EINECS NUMBER
218-827-2

PRODUCT CODE
AFA002006

SYNONYM
(S)-(+)-p-Mentha-6,8-dien-2-one

SHELF LIFE
12 months

LOGP
2.4

FLASHPOINT 
95.5°C

SPECIFIC GRAVITY
0.955-0.965 @ 25°C

REFRACTIVE INDEX 
1.491-1.501 @ 20°C

MOLECULAR WEIGHT
150.22 g/mol

PURITY (GLC)
95% 

BOILING POINT
230 °C @ 760 mm Hg

QUALITY
100% Pure and Natural

SOLUBILITY
Soluble in propylene glycol and most fixed oils; miscible in alcohol; Insoluble in water