The saturated hydrides of tervalent arsenic, having the general formula
AsnHn+2
. Individual members having an unbranched arsenic chain are named arsane, diarsane, triarsane, etc. The name of a saturated
hydride of arsenic where one or more arsenic atoms have
bonding number 5 is formed by prefixing locants and
symbols to the name of the corresponding arsane, e.g.
H2AsAsHAsH2
triarsane,
H4AsAsH3AsH4
1
,2
,3
-triarsane. Hydrocarbyl derivatives of
AsH3
belong to the class
arsines.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1319
