m-Cresol
m-Cresol (CAS: 108-39-4) is a colorless to yellowish phenolic liquid with a characteristic aromatic odor. It is an important intermediate for agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and specialty chemicals, serving as a raw material for herbicides, vitamin E production routes, antiseptics, and synthetic musks. The phenolic hydroxyl group supports alkylation, condensation, and esterification chemistry, enabling a wide range of downstream products, and the meta-methyl pattern influences selectivity in electrophilic substitution. The liquid is soluble in common organic solvents and is supplied in bulk drums and IBCs for continuous processes. Customers use it where a reactive methylphenol building block is needed for fine-chemical and crop-protection synthesis.
• Agrochemicals: a raw material for herbicide intermediates including aryloxy acid derivatives used in crop protection.
• Pharmaceuticals: used to prepare antiseptic actives, disinfectant compounds, and intermediates for other drug classes.
• Vitamins and nutrition: an intermediate in vitamin E synthesis routes supporting feed and supplement production.
• Dyes and specialty chemicals: a phenolic core for colorants, resins, antioxidants, and synthetic musks.
Product Name: m-Cresol
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