Glycolic acid
CAS Registry Number®
79-14-1
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CAS Name
Glycolic acidMolecular Formula
C2H4O3Molecular Mass
76.05Cite this Page
Glycolic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=79-14-1 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 79-14-1). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
104 °C @ Press: 10 TorrMelting Point (2)
80 °CDensity (2)
1.49 g/cm³ @ Temp: 25 °C
Source(s)
- (1) Sommelet, Marcel; Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de France, (1907), 1, 365-70, CAplus
- (2) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C2H4O3/c3-1-2(4)5/h3H,1H2,(H,4,5)
InChIKey
InChIKey=AEMRFAOFKBGASW-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(CO)(O)=O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)CO
Other Names for this Substance
- Acetic acid, 2-hydroxy-
- Glycolic acid
- Acetic acid, hydroxy-
- 2-Hydroxyacetic acid
- Hydroxyacetic acid
Deleted or Replaced CAS Registry Numbers
702627-33-6, 259744-22-4, 1033720-45-4, 1033720-48-7
