Keto–enol and enol–enol tautomerism in trifluoromethyl-β-diketones

…, CL Bumgardner, G Washington, WD Loehle…

Index: Sloop, Joseph C.; Bumgardner, Carl L.; Washington, Gary; Loehle, W. David; Sankar, Sabapathy S.; Lewis, Adam B. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2006 , vol. 127, # 6 p. 780 - 786

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Abstract

The keto–enol (K⇌ E) and enol–enol (E⇌ E) equilibria of a variety of trifluoromethyl-β- diketones were investigated using 1H, 13C, 19F NMR spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy and ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry in nonpolar solvents. In general, NMR, IR and UV spectral evidence indicates that trifluoromethyl-β-diketones exist as mixtures of two chelated cis-enol forms in nonpolar media. Infrared spectroscopy and ultraviolet spectrophotometry ...