Chemical Property of Thymol
Chemical Property:
- Appearance/Colour:white crystals or powder with a pungent odour
- Vapor Pressure:1 mm Hg ( 64 °C)
- Melting Point:48-51 °C(lit.)
- Refractive Index:Health: 3 Flammability: 1 Reactivity: 0
- Boiling Point:233 °C at 760 mmHg
- PKA:10.59±0.10(Predicted)
- Flash Point:102.2 °C
- PSA：20.23000
- Density:0.974 g/cm3
- LogP:2.82400
- Storage Temp.:Store at RT.
- Solubility.:ethanol: soluble50mg/mL
- Water Solubility.:0.1 g/100 mL (20 ºC)
- XLogP3:3.3
- Hydrogen Bond Donor Count:1
- Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count:1
- Rotatable Bond Count:1
- Exact Mass:150.104465066
- Heavy Atom Count:11
- Complexity:120
- Purity/Quality:
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99% *data from raw suppliers
Thymol 99+% *data from reagent suppliers
Safty Information:
- Pictogram(s):
C， 
N
- Hazard Codes:C,N
- Statements:
22-34-51/53
- Safety Statements:
26-28-36/37/39-45-61-28A
- MSDS Files:
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SDS file from LookChem
Total 1 MSDS from other Authors
Useful:
- Chemical Classes:Biological Agents -> Plant Oils and Extracts
- Canonical SMILES:CC1=CC(=C(C=C1)C(C)C)O
- Recent ClinicalTrials:Thymol on Netrin-1 on Obese Patients
- Recent NIPH Clinical Trials:Association between brain atrophy and intestinal permeability in patients with multiple sclerosis
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Uses
Thymol is used as a preservative in halothane. It acts as an anesthetic, antiseptic in mouth wash, stabilizer in pharmaceutical preparations. It inhibits the growth and lactate production as well as reduces the uptake of cellular glucose within the bacteria. It is an active ingredient in toothpastes like euthymol. It is involved to control varroa mites and prevent fermentation and the growth of mold in bee colonies. Thymol is an antimicrobial compound which can increase the efficacy of antibiotics involving drug resistant bacteria. It inhibits growth and lactate production as well as reduces cellular glucose upta
ke within the bacteria.
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Clinical Use
Isopropyl m-cresol is extracted from oil of Thymus vulgaris(thyme, of the mint family) by partitioning into alkalineaqueous medium followed by acidification. The crystals obtainedfrom the mother liquor are large and colorless, with athymelike odor. Thymol is only slightly soluble in water,but it is extremely soluble in alcohols and other organic solvents.Thymol has mild fungicidal properties and is used inalcohol solutions and in dusting powders for the treatmentof tinea (ringworm) infections.
