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Definition of Mercaptans
1. mercaptan [n] - See also: mercaptan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercaptans
Literary usage of Mercaptans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"mercaptans. Methyl mercaptan is a product of the putrefaction of proteins. ...
The other mercaptans are also liquids which are insoluble in water and have a ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"Reid also showed that the reaction reaches a well-defined limit, which confirms
the original idea that mercaptans are true analogs of alcohols. ..."
3. Catalysis in Organic Chemistryby Paul Sabatier by Paul Sabatier (1922)
"ELIMINATION OF WATER BETWEEN AN ALCOHOL AND HYDROGEN SULPHIDE Synthesis of
mercaptans 743. If the direct action of alcohols on the dehydrating oxides, ..."
4. Principles of Chemistry, Founded on Modern Theories by Alfred Naquet, William Cortis, Thomas Stevenson (1868)
"These ethers are derived either by the substitution of an alcohol radicle for
the typical hydrogen, as happens with monatomic mercaptans, ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen, William Ridgely Orndorff (1922)
"CHAPTER V SULPHUR DERIVATIVES OF METHANE AND ETHANE i. mercaptans THE simplest
derivatives of methane and ethane containing sulphur are the mercaptans or ..."
6. A Dictionary of Chemical Terms by James Fitton Couch (1920)
"Metallic derivatives of the mercaptans, eg mercury mer- ... Sulphur compounds
formed by combination of ketones and mercaptans, as acetone ethyl mercap- tol, ..."
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