2,6-Bis(tosyloxymethyl)pyridine

The title compound, C21H21NO6S2, is organized around a twofold axis parallel to the crystallographic c axis and containing the N atom and a C atom of the pyridine ring. The tosyl moiety and the pyridine ring are both essentially planar [maximum deviations 0.028 (2) and 0.020 (3) , respectively]; their mean planes form a dihedral angle of 33.0 (2)°.