Ascorbic acid
CAS Registry Number®
62624-30-0
CAS Name
Ascorbic acidMolecular Formula
C6H8O6Molecular Mass
176.12Cite this Page
Ascorbic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=62624-30-0 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 62624-30-0). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Melting Point (1)
168.5 °C
Source(s)
- (1) PhysProp data were obtained from Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York (US)
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1/C6H8O6/c7-1-2(8)5-3(9)4(10)6(11)12-5/h2,5,7-10H,1H2/t2-,5+/s2
InChIKey
InChIKey=CIWBSHSKHKDKBQ-DOMZIZNONA-N
SMILES
[C@H](CO)(O)[C@]1(C(O)=C(O)C(=O)O1)[H]
Canonical SMILES
O=C1OC(C(O)=C1O)C(O)CO
Other Names for this Substance
- Ascorbic acid
- DL-Ascorbic acid
