In organic chemistry, the desulfonation reaction is the hydrolysis of sulfonic acids:[1]
- RC6H4SO3H + H2O → RC6H5 + H2SO4
The reaction applied to aryl and naphthylsulfonic acids. It is the reverse of sulfonation.[2] The temperature of desulfonation correlates with the ease of the sulfonation.
- ^ Smith, Michael B.; March, Jerry (2007), Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure (6th ed.), New York: Wiley-Interscience, p. 749, ISBN 978-0-471-72091-1
- ^ Otto Lindner, Lars Rodefeld "Benzenesulfonic Acids and Their Derivatives" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry 2005, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. doi:10.1002/14356007.a03_507