The electronic and molecular structure of 2,6-bis{/V-(2-hydroxyphenyl)iminomethyl}-4methylphenol (hpimp) is clarified from the measurements of electronic absorption and 'H NMR spectra in various solvents and an X-ray diffraction analysis, together with MO calcula­ tions. Electronic absorption bands of hpimp are at 422, 397.9, 359, 341, 294.3, 265.8, and 224 nm in the non-polar solvent cyclohexa...

Equilibrium constants for keto-enol tautomerisation and migration of hydrogen from carbon to nitrogen to form enamine or zwitterion tautomers have been measured for 2-, 3and 4phenacylpyridines (PyCH,COPh) in aqueous solution at 25 "C. Relative tautomeric stabilities fall in the order ketoimine > enamine > enol and (for the 3-isomer) enol > zwitterion. Values of pKT, (-log KT) where KT = [enamin...

In the title compound C(14)H(17)N(3)O(2), the dihedral angle between the rings is 16.68 (13)°. Although the compound crystallizes in the keto form, the possibility of keto-enamine-enol-imine tautomerism is explained by a strong intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond.

The vibronic spectrum of laser desorbed and jet cooled guanine consists of bands from three different tautomers of guanine as revealed by UV–UV and IR–UV double resonance spectroscopy. 1-methylguanine, in which the Keto–Enol tautomerism is blocked, shows hole burning spectra from the 9H-and 7H-Keto form. A comparison of the vibronic pattern of the different tautomers demonstrates that the vibro...

In this paper, we report the application of the QM/QM hybrid simulation technique to the photoisomerisation reactions of anils (i.e., Schiff bases of salicylaldehyde with aniline derivatives) in the solid state, on the example of the photochromic polymorph of N-salicylidene-2-chloroaniline. By propagating molecular dynamics on a potential energy surface constructed using a combination of time-d...

Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) between two highly electronegative atoms, for example, oxygen and nitrogen, has been intensely studied experimentally and computationally, whereas there has been much less theoretical work on ESIPT to other atoms such as carbon. We have employed CASSCF, MS-CASPT2, RI-ADC(2), OM2/MRCI, DFT, and TDDFT methods to study the mechanistic photochemi...

SYNLETT 2010, No. 11, pp 1712–1716xx.xx.2010 Advanced online publication: 14.06.2010 DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1258094; Art ID: Y00510ST © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York Abstract: The use of high-throughput screening allowed for the optimization of reaction conditions for the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric decarboxylative alkylation reaction of enolate-stabilized enol carbonates. Changing t...