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tosylacetylene

tosylacetylene noun: ethynyl p-tolyl sulfone, C₉H₈O₂S, used as a reagent in a wide variety of applications.

Noun

tosylacetylene (uncountable)

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

Origin of tosylacetylene

From tosyl + acetylene.

Questions about tosylacetylene

What does tosylacetylene mean?
Tosylacetylene means ethynyl p-tolyl sulfone, C₉H₈O₂S, used as a reagent in a wide variety of applications.
What part of speech is tosylacetylene?
Tosylacetylene is a noun.

Words near tosylacetylene in the dictionary

  1. tosufloxacin
  2. tosunder
  3. toswap
  4. toswink
  5. tosyl
  6. tosylacetylene
  7. tosylamide
  8. tosylamides
  9. tosylate
  10. tosylated
  11. tosylates

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