5-Methylsalicylic acid
CAS Registry Number®
89-56-5
CAS Name
5-Methylsalicylic acidMolecular Formula
C8H8O3Molecular Mass
152.15Cite this Page
5-Methylsalicylic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=89-56-5 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 89-56-5). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Melting Point (1)
151 °CDensity (2)
1.31 g/cm³
Source(s)
- (1) PhysProp data were obtained from Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York (US)
- (2) Haisa, Masao; Acta Crystallographica, Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry, (1982), B38(5), 1480-5, CAplus
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C8H8O3/c1-5-2-3-7(9)6(4-5)8(10)11/h2-4,9H,1H3,(H,10,11)
InChIKey
InChIKey=DLGBEGBHXSAQOC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(O)(=O)C1=C(O)C=CC(C)=C1
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)C1=CC(=CC=C1O)C
Other Names for this Substance
- Benzoic acid, 2-hydroxy-5-methyl-
- 2,5-Cresotic acid
- 2-Hydroxy-5-methylbenzoic acid
- p-Cresotic acid
- p-Cresotinic acid
