Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen or wintergreen oil) is an organic ester naturally produced by many species of plants particularly wintergreens. It is also synthetically produced used as a fragrance in foods and beverages and in liniments.The compound methyl salicylate was first isolated (from the plant Gaultheria procumbens) in 1843 by the French chemist Auguste André Thomas Cahours (1813-1891) who identified it as an ester of salicylic acid and methanol.
