“…Comment p-Toluenesulfonates are used in monitoring the merging of lipids (Yachi et al, 1989), studying membrane fusion during acrosome reaction (Spungin et al, 1992), the development of immunoaf®nity chromatography for the puri®cation of the human coagulation factor (Tharakan et al, 1992), chemical studies on viruses (Alford et al, 1991), the development of technology for linking photosensitizers to model monoclonal antibodies (Jiang et al, 1990) and the chemical modi®cation of sigma subunits of the E. coli RNA polymerase (Narayanan & Krakow, 1983). The crystal and molecular structure determination of the title compound, (I), was undertaken because of the biological importance of its analogues.…”