Monohydroxybenzoic acid may refer to any of three isomeric phenolic acids:
Salicylic acid (2-hydroxybenzoic acid, o-hydroxybenzoic acid) 3-Hydroxybenzoic acid (m-hydroxybenzoic acid) 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid (p-hydroxybenzoic acid)
Monohydroxybenzoic acids can be degraded by microbes.Microbial Degradation of Monohydroxybenzoic Acids. Timmanagouda B. Karegoudar and Chi-Kyung Kim, The Journal of Microbiology, 38(2),53-61, 2000
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