Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Tautomeric Character of the Imidazole ring

H Green, AR Day

Index: Green; Day Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1942 , vol. 64, p. 1167,1170

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Citation Number: 23

Abstract

The active tautomerism of the open chain amidines has long been established. Evidence for this was obtained through the application of three methods, namely, symmetry, fission and substitution Confirmatory evidence was supplied by the observation that hydrolytic fission of a single amidine yielded two pairs of products, each pair being derived from one tautomeric form of the parent compound.