phenylacetic acid


nounChemistry.
  1. a white crystalline, aromatic acid, C8H8O2, used in the manufacture of penicillin and in perfumes.

Origin of phenylacetic acid

1
First recorded in 1875–80; phenyl + acetic acid

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