Talk:Methyl salicylate

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[edit] Suggestion

I'd like to suggest writing a little bit about how Ecstasy tablets (and other drugs) are notoriously cut with Methyl salicylate. If no one is willing, I'm up for the contribution.

-- Anonymous

I come to this page just to read about this! Bit I found not. white that,please. Ps. Im write annonymous couse I'd have only account on pt.wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.26.143.173 (talk) 19:46, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

"Methyl salicylate's odor is nearly indistinguishable from "sour-apple"

Is this correct? I have smelled a bottle of the pure chemical, and it smells nothing like sour apples. Smells exactly like Wint-O-Green Life Savers® --Joeylawn 05:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Indistinguishable from sour apple! ha, I have never heard anything so silly in my life. I have removed this and other very dubious claims. WaynaQhapaq 09:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Looking around the wikipedia site, I researched "salicylic acid", finding the following page...Salicylic Acid. Later on, while researching "Oil of Wintergreen", I came upon methyl salicylate. While the 2 chemical structures are similar, they are not completely the same, even though the methyl salicylate page lists "Salicylic Acid" as one of its alternate names. Is this a mistake, or is methyl salicylate really known as salicylic acid? If it is also known as salicylic acid, and the other page which discusses salicylic acid discusses a totally different organic compound, then perhaps a note should be added to warn readers of the difference between the two. I would add it myself, but I don't have the necessary knowledge to confirm its validity. --RubyDragon 22:54, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

No, this article (Methyl salicylate) says salicylic acid methyl ester is an alternate name. That's all one phrase. Salicylic acid is a different chemical, as you say. —Keenan Pepper 02:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi,

I'm pretty sure the structure is wrong, I cannot see a methyl anywhere.

-yo Anyone heard that if its eaten with sugar crystals, light shines out of the eaters mouth?

The structure is correct. The line extending from the oxygen of the carboxylic acid indicates a methyl group in this type of chemical structure depiction. --Ed (Edgar181) 18:17, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Just wanted to know whether methyl salicylate can be a stimulant[like drugs]?

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Victoria Eleanor (talk • contribs) 15:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC).

NO, elsewhere wintergreen flavorised chewing gum would make you high. Higher doses only get you down - under the ground. It's only used to flavorise synthetic drugs. --128.246.31.6 (talk) 13:15, 14 February 2008 (UTC)