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tosylacetylene en · NOUN

Etymology

From tosyl + acetylene.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Ethynyl p-tolyl sulfone, C₉H₈O₂S, used as a reagent in a wide variety of applications.
    • 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:
    • […] accomplished via the Diels–Alder reaction of tosylacetylene with butadiene […] 2012, V. Nenajdenko, Isocyanide Chemistry: Applications in Synthesis and Material Science:
    • 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: