How do you remove tosylate?
1 Answer
Jul 2, 2018
Is not tosylate the leaving group par excellence...?
Explanation:
...and thus MOST nucleophiles should displace tosylate, even relatively weak ones such as halide...
And why should tosylate be such a competent leaving group? Its anion is resonance-stabilized as shown...and the negative charge is delocalized...
