Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Silver trifluoromethanesulfonate or silver triflate is the triflate salt of silver. Since the triflate anion is weakly coordinating it is useful as a halide abstraction reagent. This is similar to other silver salts e.g. the tetrafluoroborate and the hexafluorophosphate. It is useful in activating sulfur protecting groups at the anomeric centres of carbohydrates in presence of iodine/NIS.
