Strictly speaking, phenylmercury is a cation,
C
6H
5Hg
+, that forms organic mercury
compounds such as phenylmercury acetate and phenylmercury chloride, which have
both been used as fungicides. The term 'phenylmercury' is sometimes used as a
generic term to describe phenylmercury compounds.
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