Definition of Mercapto

1. containing a particular chemical group [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercapto

mercantile establishment
mercantile law
mercantile system
mercantilely
mercantilism
mercantilisms
mercantilist
mercantilistic
mercantilists
mercaptal
mercaptals
mercaptan
mercaptans
mercaptide
mercaptides
mercapto (current term)
mercapto-
mercaptoacetic acid
mercaptoalkyl
mercaptoalkyls
mercaptobenzoic
mercaptobenzoic acid
mercaptodimethur
mercaptoethanol
mercaptoethanols
mercaptol
mercaptolactate-cysteine disulfiduria
mercaptole
mercaptoles
mercaptomerin sodium

Literary usage of Mercapto

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Utilisation of Wood-waste by Ernst Hubbard (1902)
"PATENT DYE-STUFFS (ORGANIC SULPHIDES, SULPHO-DYES OR mercapto-DYES). By a process which has not become very generally known, Croissant and Bretonniere ..."

2. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1906)
"2-Methyl- mercapto-4-oxy-6-aminopyrimidine (XIV) was easily prepared from 2-thio-4-oxy-6-aminopyrimidine, one molecule of alcoholic sodium ..."

3. Dyes Classified by Intermediates: Dyes Tabularly Arranged Under Each by Randolph Norris Shreve, Warren N. Watson, Arthur R. Willis (1922)
"See, p-Nitro-benzyl Chloride (m-Chloro-phenyl-mercapto)-acetic Acid (CA nomen. ... SK), hydrolyzed to the mercapto-derivative, and condensed with ..."

4. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry ; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter (1900)
"£TT _ C fl-Methyl-u-mercapto-thiazole, v^C. SH, melts at 90°. Thiazole Carboxylic Acids: Their esters are produced in the condensation ..."

5. A Study of the Reactions of Normal Butyl Mercaptan and Some of Its ...by Thomas Cobb Whitner by Thomas Cobb Whitner (1921)
"... butyl mercapto-ethyl bromide. SOME DERIVATIVES OF BUTYL MERCAPTAN AND THEIR MERCURIC IODIDE COMPOUNDS. Most of the investigations concerned with ..."

6. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"/j-mercapto-/i- methylthiazole Carboxylic Ester, C,(SH)(CH,)SN . COOC,H5, melting nt 141°, is formed from a ..."

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