tosylacetylene

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noun

Ethynyl p-tolyl sulfone, C₉H₈O₂S, used as a reagent in a wide variety of applications.

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Meanings

nountosylacetylene (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryEthynyl p-tolyl sulfone, C₉H₈O₂S, used as a reagent in a wide variety of applications.

    […] accomplished via the Diels–Alder reaction of tosylacetylene with butadiene […]

    2012, V. Nenajdenko, Isocyanide Chemistry: Applications in Synthesis and Material Science
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    This is regioselectively trapped in situ by the tosylacetylene 87 via one of two mechanisms to generate 88 or 89.

    2007, M. Green, Organometallic Chemistry, volume 31, page 222

    The addition of a thiol to tosylacetylene affords the corresponding tosylvinyl sulfide as a mixture of Z-and E-isomers (4:1) in excellent yields.

    2014, Johann Mulzer, Science of Synthesis, page 370

Origin

From tosyl + acetylene.

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