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The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:tosyl group
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Accession:CHEBI:51094 term browser browse the term
Definition:A group, usually derived from the compound 4-toluenesulfonyl chloride, which forms esters and amides of toluenesulfonic acid; often used as a protecting group for alcohols and amines in organic synthesis reactions.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: (4-methylphenyl)(dioxido)-lambda(6)-sulfanyl;   (4-methylphenyl)sulfonyl
 related_synonym: Formula=C7H7O2S;   SMILES=Cc1ccc(cc1)S(-*)(=O)=O;   Ts group;   p-tolylsulfonyl;   p-tolylsulfonyl group
 xref: PMID:13867017



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                                      sulfo group 0
                                        organosulfonic acid 0
                                          arenesulfonic acid 0
                                            toluene-4-sulfonic acid 0
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