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CAS Registry Number®
50-21-5
CAS Name
Lactic acidMolecular Formula
C3H6O3Molecular Mass
90.08Cite this Page
Lactic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=50-21-5 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 50-21-5). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
122 °C @ Press: 14-15 TorrMelting Point (1)
16.8 °CDensity (1)
1.249 g/cm³ @ Temp: 15 °C
Source(s)
- (1) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C3H6O3/c1-2(4)3(5)6/h2,4H,1H3,(H,5,6)
InChIKey
InChIKey=JVTAAEKCZFNVCJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(C(O)=O)(C)O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)C(O)C
Other Names for this Substance
- Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-
- Lactic acid
- 2-Hydroxypropanoic acid
- α-Hydroxypropionic acid
- 2-Hydroxypropionic acid
Deleted or Replaced CAS Registry Numbers
152-36-3, 598-82-3, 1334714-39-4
