3-Methylsalicylic acid
CAS Registry Number®
83-40-9
CAS Name
3-Methylsalicylic acidMolecular Formula
C8H8O3Molecular Mass
152.15Cite this Page
3-Methylsalicylic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=83-40-9 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 83-40-9). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Melting Point (1)
165.5 °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/c1-5-3-2-4-6(7(5)9)8(10)11/h2-4,9H,1H3,(H,10,11)
InChIKey
InChIKey=WHSXTWFYRGOBGO-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(O)(=O)C1=C(O)C(C)=CC=C1
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)C1=CC=CC(=C1O)C
Other Names for this Substance
- Benzoic acid, 2-hydroxy-3-methyl-
- 2,3-Cresotic acid
- 2-Hydroxy-3-methylbenzoic acid
- 3-MS
- o-Cresotic acid
