Glycolic acid
Properties
- Molecular formula
- C2H4O3
- Molar mass
- 76.05 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 76.0160 Da
- Density
- 1.49 g/mL (at 25 °C)
- Melting point
- 80 °C
- Boiling point
- 104 °C (at 10 Torr)
- pKa
- 3.83 (25 °C)
- logP
- -0.94Crippen estimate
- Polar surface area
- 57.5 Ų
- H-bond donors / acceptors
- 2 / 2
- Rotatable bonds
- 1
Hazards
Danger
- H302 Harmful if swallowed82.6% of notifiers
- H314 Causes severe skin burns and eye damage99.7% of notifiers
- H318 Causes serious eye damage28.5% of notifiers
- H332 Harmful if inhaled30.6% of notifiers
Aggregated from 3,312 ECHA notifications, via PubChem; a share says how many notifiers assign that statement.
Precautionary statements
P260, P261, P264, P264+P265, P270, P271, P280, P301+P317, P301+P330+P331, P302+P361+P354, P304+P340, P305+P354+P338, P316, P317, P321, P330, P363, P405, P501
Identifiers
CAS number
79-14-1SMILES
O=C(O)COInChIKey
AEMRFAOFKBGASW-UHFFFAOYSA-NInChI
InChI=1S/C2H4O3/c3-1-2(4)5/h3H,1H2,(H,4,5)Weigh it out
Type any one amount. The others follow from the molar mass and density.
Names and synonyms
12 names
- Acetic acid, 2-hydroxy-
- Acetic acid, hydroxy-
- 2-Hydroxyacetic acid
- Hydroxyacetic acid
- Hydroxyethanoic acid
- α-Hydroxyacetic acid
- Glycocide
- GlyPure
- GlyPure 70
- NSC 166
- 2-Hydroxyethanoic acid
- GlyPure 99
Work with Glycolic acid
Stereoisomers, salts and isotopologues
The same compound in another form: other stereochemistry, a salt or hydrate, the free acid or base, or an isotope-labelled version.
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Tanimoto similarity of circular fingerprints over the whole catalogue. All similar compounds