Sulfonic acid



 

Sulfonic acid is an unstable esters, called sulfonates.

Sulfonic acids

  Sulfonic acids are a class of catalysts and intermediates for a number of different products. Sulfonic acids and their salts (sulfonates) are used extensively in such diverse products like detergents, antibacterial drugs sulfa drugs, anion exchange resins (water purification)and dyes. The simplest example is methanesulfonic acid, CH3SO2OH, which is a reagent regularly used in p-Toluenesulfonic acid is also an important reagent.

Sulfonic acid chlorides

Sulfonic acid chlorides are a class of tosyl chloride, brosyl chloride, nosyl chloride and mesyl chloride. One synthetic procedure to synthesize sulfonic acid chlorides is the Reed reaction.

Sulfonic esters

Sulfonic esters are a class of nucleophilic aliphatic substitution.

See also

 
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