Saturday, August 6, 2016

What is 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid?


CAS: 99-96-7
Molecular Formula: C7H5O3
Molecular Weight: 137.1133
4-Hydroxybenzoicacid, aswell accepted as p-hydroxybenzoic acid (PHBA), is a monohydroxybenzoic acid, a phenolic acquired of benzoic acid. It is a white apparent solid that is hardly acrid in baptize and chloroform but added acrid in arctic amoebic solvents such as alcohols and acetone. 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid is primarily accepted as the base for the alertness of its esters, accepted as parabens, which are acclimated as preservatives in cosmetics and some ophthalmic solutions. It is isomeric with 2-hydroxybenzoic acid, accepted as salicylic acid, a forerunner to aspirin.
4-Hydroxybenzoic acid can be begin by itself in Cocos nucifera.It is one of the capital catechins metabolites begin in bodies afterwards burning of blooming tea infusions. It is aswell begin in wine, in vanilla, in Macrotyloma uniflorum (horse gram) and in Phyllanthus acidus (Otaheite gooseberry).

It is aswell begin in the comestible augment Russula virescens (green-cracking russula).

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