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4-Hydroxybiphenyl

C12H10O, 170.211 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — phenol7 measured properties

Drawn from the SMILES. It shows how the atoms are connected — not a photograph of a molecule, and not its shape in space.

Identifiers

Molecular formula
C₁₂H₁₀O
Molecular weight
170.211 g/mol
Exact mass
170.073165 g/mol
IUPAC name
4-phenylphenol
SMILES
Oc1ccc(-c2ccccc2)cc1
InChI
InChI=1S/C12H10O/c13-12-8-6-11(7-9-12)10-4-2-1-3-5-10/h1-9,13H
InChIKey
YXVFYQXJAXKLAK-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Both are open without an account.

Measured properties

Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.

Boiling Point
305-308 °Cmeasured · Budavari, S. (ed.). The Merck Index - Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs and Biologicals. Rahway, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 1989., p. 1160
Melting Point
164-165 °Cmeasured · Budavari, S. (ed.). The Merck Index - Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs and Biologicals. Rahway, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 1989., p. 1160
Flash Point
165.5 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
330 °Fmeasured · Hawley, G.G. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 9th ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1977., p. 676
Solubility
SLIGHTLY SOL IN PETROLEUM ETHER; VERY SOL IN ALCOHOL, ETHER, CHLOROFORM & PYRIMIDINEmeasured · Weast, R.C. (ed.). Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 60th ed. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press Inc., 1979., p. C-212
SOL IN ALCOHOL, ALSO IN ALKALIES & MOST ORGANIC SOLVENTS; INSOLUBLE IN WATERmeasured · Lewis, R.J., Sr (Ed.). Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 12th ed. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Rheinhold Co., 1993, p. 903
Soluble in oxygenated solvents.measured · Ashford, R.D. Ashford's Dictionary of Industrial Chemicals. London, England: Wavelength Publications Ltd., 1994., p. 690
Water solubility = 56.2 mg/lmeasured · Yalkowsky SH, Dannenfelser RM; Aquasol Database of Aqueous Solubility. Version 5. College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona-Tucson, AZ. PC Version (1992)
Density
1.27 kg/l @ 25 °Cmeasured · Ashford, R.D. Ashford's Dictionary of Industrial Chemicals. London, England: Wavelength Publications Ltd., 1994., p. 690
1.27 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
0.0000188 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
LogP
Log Kow = 3.20measured · Hansch, C. and A. Leo. The Log P Database. Claremont, CA: Pomona College, 1987.
3.33measured · reference compound database

Calculated properties

Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.

Molecular weight
170.21 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
170.073164938 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
3.2calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
20.2 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
141calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
1calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · reference compound database
logP
3.0592calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
20.23 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
1calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
53.5428 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.6969calculated · chemistry engine
Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

Percentages are of the molecular weight above, worked out the same way the molar mass calculator does it.

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
13
Total atoms, hydrogen included
23
Rings
2
Aromatic rings
2
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Phenol

    An –OH group attached to an aromatic ring.

  • Aromatic ring

    A flat six-membered ring with delocalised electrons.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

Rotate and inspect the atoms. Loaded only when you ask, so the page stays light.

The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.

Reactions it appears in

No documented reaction with a written procedure and a source involves 4-Hydroxybiphenyl yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is 4-phenylphenol.

The sources also call it 4-Phenylphenol, [1,1'-Biphenyl]-4-ol, Biphenyl-4-ol, p-Phenylphenol, 4-Biphenylol, p-Hydroxybiphenyl, p-Hydroxydiphenyl, 4-Hydroxydiphenyl, Paraxenol, p-Biphenylol, 4-Diphenylol.

Structurally related

Molecules sharing this formula, or whose fingerprint is at least 40% similar to this one. Similarity is Tanimoto on Morgan fingerprints over this library only — it is a measure of structural overlap, not of how alike they behave.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as 4-Hydroxybiphenyl. This says nothing about structure: most of them are the bases, solvents, ligands and catalysts the chemistry needed, and they are here because somebody put them in the same flask.

Where these values came from

compound record.

What this page does not claim

The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.

Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.