4-Methylsalicylic acid
CAS Registry Number®
50-85-1
CAS Name
4-Methylsalicylic acidMolecular Formula
C8H8O3Molecular Mass
152.15Cite this Page
4-Methylsalicylic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=50-85-1 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 50-85-1). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Melting Point (1)
177 °CDensity (2)
1.304 g/cm³
Source(s)
- (1) PhysProp data were obtained from Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York (US)
- (2) Sanjay, Sharda Sundaram; Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, (2008), 85(1), 108-110, CAplus
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C8H8O3/c1-5-2-3-6(8(10)11)7(9)4-5/h2-4,9H,1H3,(H,10,11)
InChIKey
InChIKey=NJESAXZANHETJV-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(O)(=O)C1=C(O)C=C(C)C=C1
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)C1=CC=C(C=C1O)C
Other Names for this Substance
- Benzoic acid, 2-hydroxy-4-methyl-
- 2,4-Cresotic acid
- 2-Hydroxy-4-methylbenzoic acid
- γ-Cresotic acid
- m-Cresotic acid
