thiophenol

noun

thio·​phenol

¦thīō+

1

: a mobile liquid mercaptan C₆H₅SH with a smell like garlic and with acid properties somewhat stronger than those of phenol that may be formed by the action of phosphorus pentasulfide on phenol but that is better synthesized by reduction of benzene-sulfonyl chloride

called also phenyl mercaptan

2

: an aromatic mercaptan (as thiophenol)

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary thi- + phenol

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