Kojic acid
Properties
- Molecular formula
- C6H6O4
- Molar mass
- 142.11 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 142.0266 Da
- Melting point
- 153.5 °C
- pKa
- 7.66 (approx., at 25 °C)
- Water solubility
- soluble
- logP
- -0.16Crippen estimate
- Polar surface area
- 70.7 Ų
- H-bond donors / acceptors
- 2 / 4
- Rotatable bonds
- 1
Hazards
Warning
- H351 Suspected of causing cancer13.8% of notifiers
Aggregated from 80 ECHA notifications, via PubChem; a share says how many notifiers assign that statement.
Precautionary statements
P203, P280, P318, P405, P501
Identifiers
CAS number
501-30-4SMILES
O=c1cc(CO)occ1OInChIKey
BEJNERDRQOWKJM-UHFFFAOYSA-NInChI
InChI=1S/C6H6O4/c7-2-4-1-5(8)6(9)3-10-4/h1,3,7,9H,2H2Weigh it out
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Names and synonyms
8 names
- 4H-Pyran-4-one, 5-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-
- 5-Hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4H-pyran-4-one
- 5-Hydroxy-2-hydroxymethyl-4-pyrone
- 2-(Hydroxymethyl)-5-hydroxy-4H-pyran-4-one
- NSC 1942
- 5-Hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4H-pyranone
- 5-Hydroxy-2-hydroxymethylpyran-4-one
- 5-Hydroxy-2-hydroxymethyl-1,4-pyrone
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