4-Toluenesulfonyl chloride → pent-4-ynyl tosylate

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p-Toluenesulfonyl chloride (21.4 g, 112 mmol) was added slowly to a stirred solution of 4-pentyn-1-ol (11.5 mL, 124 mL) and triethylamine (17.2 mL, 124 mmol) in dichloromethane (100 mL) at room temperature. After 22 hours, the solution was diluted with dichloromethane, washed with water, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated. The crude product was purified by flash chromatography (silica gel, gradient elution from 95:5 to 85:15 hexanes/ethyl acetate) to afford the product pent-4-ynyl 4-methylbenzenesulfonate (23.4 g, 87%) as a colorless oil.

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