Methyl 2 hydroxybenzoate hydrogen bonding

[Zayn]

Homework Statement

How many hydrogen bonds can methyl 2-hydroxybenzoate form with molecules of the same compind?

Homework Equations

N/A

The Attempt at a Solution

There's a hydroxyl group on the second carbon of the benzene ring and a double-bonded oxygen with 2(3?) lone pairs, so I'm thinking that it would form 2 hydrogen bonds, but I'm not sure. Thanks in advance!

 

[epenguin]

How many groups are involved in one hydrogen bond?

Have you tried to write plausible structures?

Would you know how to check your conjectures?

 

[adianadiadi]

Molecules of same compound...? So Inter molecular H-bonding. Also remember that there are intra molecular H-bonds possible.