Definition of Hydroxybenzoic acid

1. Noun. A crystalline derivative of benzoic acid.

Generic synonyms: Hydroxy Acid

Definition of Hydroxybenzoic acid

1. Noun. (organic compound) Any of three isomeric phenolic derivatives of benzoic acid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydroxybenzoic Acid

hydroxyacid-oxoacid transhydrogenase
hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase
hydroxyalkyl
hydroxyalkyls
hydroxyamino
hydroxyamphetamine hydrobromide
hydroxyanisole
hydroxyanthraquinone
hydroxyanthraquinones
hydroxyapatite
hydroxyapatites
hydroxyaryl
hydroxybenzene
hydroxybenzoate
hydroxybenzoic
hydroxybenzoic acid (current term)
hydroxybenzoic acids
hydroxybenzoquinone
hydroxybenzoquinones
hydroxybutyrate
hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase
hydroxybutyrates
hydroxybutyric
hydroxybutyric acid
hydroxycancrinite
hydroxycarbamide
hydroxycarbonate
hydroxycarboxylate-viologen-oxidoreductase
hydroxychavicol
hydroxychloroquine

Literary usage of Hydroxybenzoic acid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen, William Ridgely Orndorff (1922)
"What analogy is there between the fact that protocatechuic acid is formed from sulpho-w-hydroxybenzoic acid and from sulpho-/>-hydroxybenzoic acid, ..."

2. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"Consequently, the third hydroxybenzoic acid, which is related to the third bromo- and amino-benzoic acid, must be a para compound, and as this acid and ..."

3. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1907)
"Consequently, the third hydroxybenzoic acid, which is related to the third bromo- and amino-benzoic acid, must be a para ..."

4. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"A biochemical method of estimating small quantities of salicyclic acid in the presence of excess of ^>-hydroxybenzoic acid has been described by ..."

5. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1920)
"In addition to the products which might be expected (glucose and delphinidin) two molecules of ^3-hydroxybenzoic acid make their appearance ; so that the ..."

6. The Chemical Synthesis of Vital Products and the Interrelations Between by Raphael Meldola (1904)
"200), m-hydroxybenzoic acid, &c., as under E. Or o-toluic acid can be ... and the latter converted into m- hydroxybenzoic acid and phenol as above. ..."

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