Tosy late ester

Another method for reducing an alcohol involves converting the alcohol to the tosy-late ester, then using a hydride reducing agent to displace the tosylate leaving group. This reaction works with most primary and secondary alcohols. 

These views are not universally held, one reason being that Schleyer has presented evidence that the solvolysis of simple tosy-lates and endo-norbomyl esters may not occur via a limiting mechcmism (Fry et al., 1970 and accompanying papers). 

An efficient synthesis of 2Ff-azirines 6 substituted with a phosphate group is described. Its key step is an alkaloid catalyzed Neber reaction of -ketoxime tosylates 5 (equation 3) . Similarly, azirines containing an ester group in position 2 were obtained from tosy-lated oximes . A novel approach to substituted 2Ff-azirines using benzotriazole (Bt) methodology was recently presented. The reaction of benzotriazole oxime tosylates formed from the oxime 7 and TsCl with aqueous KOH yielded 2-(benzotriazol-l-yl)-2H-azirines. 

Nucleophilic substitution of toluene- -sulphonates (tosy-lates) and other sulphonic esters of secondary steroidal alcohols has received much attention, both in studies of reaction mechanisms, and also as a route for the conversion of alcohols into their epimers. One of the most important practical objectives has been the synthesis of 3a-hydroxy-5a-steroids, which include androsterone and a wide variety of metabolites of the steroid hormones, Tosylates of equatorial 3jS-alcohols (15) give 3a-alcohols or their derivatives (16) in acceptable... 

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