3-methylsalicylic acid (CHEBI:20141)

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ChEBI Name	3-methylsalicylic acid

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:20141

Definition	A monohydroxybenzoic acid consisting of salicylic acid carrying a methyl group at the 3-position.

Stars	This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.

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Formula

C8H8O3

Net Charge

Average Mass

152.14730

Monoisotopic Mass

152.04734

InChI

InChI=1S/C8H8O3/c1-5-3-2-4-6(7(5)9)8(10)11/h2-4,9H,1H3,(H,10,11)

InChIKey

WHSXTWFYRGOBGO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1cccc(C(O)=O)c1O

Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s):	Bronsted acid A molecular entity capable of donating a hydron to an acceptor (Bronsted base). (via oxoacid )

Biological Role(s):	bacterial xenobiotic metabolite Any bacterial metabolite produced by metabolism of a xenobiotic compound in bacteria.

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	3-methylsalicylic acid (CHEBI:20141) has functional parent salicylic acid (CHEBI:16914) 3-methylsalicylic acid (CHEBI:20141) has role bacterial xenobiotic metabolite (CHEBI:76976) 3-methylsalicylic acid (CHEBI:20141) is a monohydroxybenzoic acid (CHEBI:25389)

IUPAC Name

2-hydroxy-3-methylbenzoic acid

Last Modified

25 February 2016