"tosyl" meaning in English

See tosyl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: tosyls [plural]
Etymology: From toluene + sulfonyl. Head templates: {{en-noun}} tosyl (plural tosyls)
  1. (organic chemistry, especially in combination) toluenesulfonyl, phenylmethylsulfonyl Wikipedia link: tosyl Tags: especially, in-compounds Categories (topical): Organic compounds Synonyms: ptosyl (english: strictly p-tosyl) Derived forms: ditosyl, tosylamide, tosylate, tosylation, tosylimine

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From toluene + sulfonyl.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tosyls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tosyl (plural tosyls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Organic compounds",
          "orig": "en:Organic compounds",
          "parents": [
            "Matter",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "ditosyl"
        },
        {
          "word": "tosylamide"
        },
        {
          "word": "tosylate"
        },
        {
          "word": "tosylation"
        },
        {
          "word": "tosylimine"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "toluenesulfonyl, phenylmethylsulfonyl"
      ],
      "id": "en-tosyl-en-noun-aaFoPhfe",
      "links": [
        [
          "organic chemistry",
          "organic chemistry"
        ],
        [
          "toluenesulfonyl",
          "toluenesulfonyl"
        ],
        [
          "phenylmethylsulfonyl",
          "phenylmethylsulfonyl"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(organic chemistry, especially in combination) toluenesulfonyl, phenylmethylsulfonyl"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "strictly p-tosyl",
          "word": "ptosyl"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "in-compounds"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "natural-sciences",
        "organic-chemistry",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "tosyl"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tosyl"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "ditosyl"
    },
    {
      "word": "tosylamide"
    },
    {
      "word": "tosylate"
    },
    {
      "word": "tosylation"
    },
    {
      "word": "tosylimine"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From toluene + sulfonyl.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tosyls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tosyl (plural tosyls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Organic compounds"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "toluenesulfonyl, phenylmethylsulfonyl"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "organic chemistry",
          "organic chemistry"
        ],
        [
          "toluenesulfonyl",
          "toluenesulfonyl"
        ],
        [
          "phenylmethylsulfonyl",
          "phenylmethylsulfonyl"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(organic chemistry, especially in combination) toluenesulfonyl, phenylmethylsulfonyl"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "in-compounds"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "natural-sciences",
        "organic-chemistry",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "tosyl"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "strictly p-tosyl",
      "word": "ptosyl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tosyl"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tosyl meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.