1 Faculty of Metallurgy and Technology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put bb, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.
2 Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Condensed Matter Physics, PO Box 522, University of Belgrade, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia.
3 Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Kragujevac, R. Domanovića 12, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
In the title compound, C10H12O3, all non-H atoms are approximately coplanar, with an r.m.s. deviation of 0.046 Å. In the crystal, very weak C-H⋯O inter-actions link the mol-ecules into sheets parallel to (101).