mercaptan

See also: Mercaptan

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Mercaptan, coined from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mer(curius) (“mercury”) captan(s) (“capturing”). The term was introduced in 1832 by William Christopher Zeise because the thiolate group bonds very strongly with mercury compounds.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məːˈkapt(ə)n/, /məːˈkaptan/

Noun

mercaptan (plural mercaptans)

1. (chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds of sulphur, ( R₁.S.R₂ ); they tend to be foul-smelling. When R₂ is a hydrogen atom, they are termed thiols or thioalcohols.

Translations

sulphuric compound

• French: mercaptan (fr) m
• German: Mercaptan n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: mercaptano (it) m
• Spanish: mercaptano m

See also

• mercapto

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French

Etymology

Coined from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mercurium captans.

Noun

mercaptan m (plural mercaptans)

1. (chemistry) mercaptan

Further reading

• “mercaptan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.