MOLECULE

2-furfurylthiol

Named in 1 VERIFIED claim about 1 Atlas entry: Popcorn.

Where the evidence names it

Popcorn

Linked to the odour · the claim says “may be partly responsible for typical popcorn aroma”

A comparison of popped popcorn hybrids suggested that volatiles including 2-furfurylthiol, methional, 4-vinylguaiacol, 2-pentylfuran, guaiacol and 2-acetylpyrrole may be partly responsible for typical popcorn aroma.

Scope: Six hot-air-popped hybrids; the links are correlations stated tentatively by the authors, without olfactometry. CLM-POPCORN-001 ↗

Identifiers

PubChem: CID 7363 (2-Furanmethanethiol)
Formula: C5H6OS
InChIKey: ZFFTZDQKIXPDAF-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Wikidata: No single Wikidata item carries this InChIKey.
ChEBI: Not recorded.

Checked against PubChem and Wikidata on 2026-10-02 (identifier check run 37063263965). Every name SmellBook uses must resolve to the same single PubChem compound.

WHAT THIS MEANS

SmellBook lists a molecule only where a VERIFIED claim names it, in the role and scope that claim states. A molecule reported in a smell's evidence is not the whole smell: most smells come from many compounds together, and the studies measured particular samples, such as one cultivar, an essential oil or a cooked product.

Permanent identifier smellbook:molecule:2-furfurylthiol · Graph record (JSON)

Cite as SmellBook. (2026). 2-furfurylthiol (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 369. smellbook:molecule:2-furfurylthiol. https://smellbook.com/molecules/2-furfurylthiol

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 369.