The methyl salicylate (wintergreen oil) is the methyl ester of salicylic acid.
Methyl salicylate is produced by esterifying salicylic acid with methanol, the reaction scheme is attached to this answer. In the past, it was commonly distilled from the twigs of Betula lenta (sweet birch) and Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry or wintergreen).
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In this case, according to the given information, it turns out possible for us to calculate the required grams of HCl by firstly identifying the limiting reactant via the moles of each reactant as they are in a 1:1 mole ratio:
Thus, we infer the hydrogen is the limiting reactant and therefore we use its 1:2 mole ratio with HCl whose molar mass is 36.46 g/mol:
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