824-79-3 Sodium p-Toluenesulfinate

Flash point	159.4℃
Boiling point
Density
Storage	Moisture sensitive

Alkylation with reactive halides leads to alkyl sulfones. Alkylation of sulfinates can be carried out in a polyethylene glycol as solvent/catalyst: Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 57, 613 (1984). Reaction with allylic alcohols also gives sulfones: J. Org. Chem., 55, 3274 (1990). For asymmetric sulfonylation of allylic chlorides, catalyzed by a chiral Pd complex, see: Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 6, 643 (1995).
For use as a precursor of p-toluenesulfonyldiazomethane, via Mannich reaction with formaldehyde and urethane, nitrosation and cleavage with alumina, see: Org. Synth. Coll., 6, 981 (1988).
Also undergoes free-radical reactions in the presence of Cu(II), activated either thermally or by sonication. For example, addition-cyclization of 5-heteroarylpent-1-enes: Synlett, 763 (1995).