5885. Mercuric Salicylate

Nomenclature

CAS number: 5970-32-1
[2-(Hydroxy-κO)benzoato(2)-κO]mercury; mercury subsalicylate.
C7H4HgO3; mol wt 336.69.
C 24.97%, H 1.20%, Hg 59.58%, O 14.26%.

Description and references

Article of commerce contains 54-58% Hg. Prepn: C. H. Rogers et al., Inorganic Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Lea & Febriger, Philadelphia, 4th ed., 1948) pp 409-411.

Properties

White or slightly yellowish or pinkish, odorless powder. Poisonous. Insol in water or alcohol. Sol in warm solns of alkali halides, fixed alkali hydroxides and carbonates. Incompat: Alkali iodides.

Therapeutic Category

Topical antiseptic.