Aspirin

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Aspirin is the brand name for Salicylic acid. It's production on Mars would be part of a larger chemical production system, and it can be used as a model for the complexity of the chemical industry that would be required for a Mars Settlement.

In situ production

Toluene

Phenol

Sodium phenoxyde

sodium salicylate

Salicylic acid