Aspirin is an acetylation product of ______

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Aspirin
Aspirin is also known by the name Acetylsalicylic acid which is shown by the chemical formula $C_{9} H_{8} O_{4}$ and structure of aspirin is shown by:
Synthesis of Aspirin
Aspirin is an acetylation product of o-hydroxybenzoic acid $(C_{7} H_{6} O_{3})$ , also known by the name salicylic acid .
This reaction will give aspirin along with acetic acid.
Thus, Aspirin is an acetylation product of o-hydroxybenzoic acid.
The reaction can be shown as:

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