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