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Phenylmethanediol
Sign in to savePhenylmethanediol is an organic compound that is a geminal diol, the hydrate of benzaldehyde. It is a short-lived intermediate in some chemical reactions, such as oxidations of toluene and benzaldehyde and the reduction of benzoic acid.
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It is catalogued under topics including Benzyl compounds and Geminal diols.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C7H8O2
- Molecular weight
- 124.14 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- phenylmethanediol
- SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)C(O)O
- InChIKey
- SNGARVZXPNQWEY-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.5
- Polar surface area
- 40.5 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 124.052429496
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- canonical SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)C(O)O
- chemical formula
- C₇H₈O₂
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Phenylmethanediol is an organic compound that is a geminal diol, the hydrate of benzaldehyde. It is a short-lived intermediate in some chemical reactions, such as oxidations of toluene and benzaldehyde and the reduction of benzoic acid.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phenylmethanediol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.