Hi
I am UTFSE in for many weeks for the reaction mechanisms of sulphur compounds. There are many educative posts but because I know absolutely nothing about the issue I cant understand many aspects of these posts. For example I read many posts who deal with the tosylation of alcohols but I cant understand why that tosyl group is replaced with the H of -OH group - what benefits does it offer?
I need help because I dont know where to start show me the basics of tosylation, which groups can be tosylated, what can the tosyl group be replaced with etc. and I can pull the rest.
Thanx