mercapto

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mercapto

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From mercaptan, from Latin mercurius captans (“mercury capturing”).

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especially, in compounds, uncountable The univalent radical -SH The postulated mechanism for the reaction of coumarin 4 as an antioxidant, as indicated in Fig 3, relies on the mercapto hydrogen atom (bold), which is under the influence of resonance and inductive effects.

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@misc{mercapto_2026,
  title = {mercapto},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mercapto},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}