• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.441-444
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• 1991

The intramolecular proton transfers of 2-hydroxy-4,5-naphthotropone in room temperature solutions are studied using static and time-resolved absorption and emission spectroscopy. Dual normal and tautomer fluorescence is observed in ethanol solution, while only the tautomer fluorescence is observed in cyclohexane solution. The fluorescence lifetimes and quantum yields in ethanol and cyclohexane solutions indicate that in hydrocarbon solvents, rapid intersystem crossing competes with proton transfer in the first excited singlet state. Transient absorption spectra and kinetics indicate that proton transfer also undergoes in the first triplet state with a transfer time of ∼ 3 ns. No transient absorption from the tautomer ground state indicates a rapid back proton transfer in the ground state.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.150-156
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• 1995

Molecular orbital calculations at the ab initio, AM1, and PM3 levels have been carried out to investigate the lactam-lactim tautomerism of 1,2,4-triazolidine-3,5- dione(1) and 1,3,4-oxa(or thia)diazolidine-2,5-dione(2, 3). Most stable tautomer in 1 compound has been calculated to be a dilactam 1a and next one is lactam-lactim 1b. The relative energies between 1a and 1b are 4.1~12.6 kcal/mol depending on computational methods. The optimized 1a structure at ab initio level is in good agreement with X-ray structure. While the stabilities of 2 tautomers are in order of 2a>2b>2c, the stabilities of 3 tautomers are dependent on methods. According to 3-21G basis set, 3a tautomer is more stable by 4.9 kcal/mol over 3b tautomer. In contrast, the heat of formation of 3a at AM1 is higher by 2.71 kcal/mol than 3b.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.385-389
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• 1988

Synthesis of 6-oxo-1,6-dihydro-1,2,4-triazine derivatives was tried. The model compounds of the possible tautomers were synthesized. The tautomeric equilibrium of 6-oxo-1,6, dihydro-1,2,4-triazine derivatives was determined by comparing their UV spectra and those of model compounds. 6-oxo-tautomer was exclusively detected in water and alcohol solutions without observation of the expected 6-hydroxy tautomers.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.276-280
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• 1999

The different core-modified porphyrins 21-thia-23-carba-12-aza-5,10-dimesityl-15,20-diphenylporphyrin (6), and their N(12)-methyl derivatives (8) were synthesized by acid-catalyzed [3+1] condensation of the corresponding 16-thia-5,10-dimesityltripyrromethanes and 2,4-bis[(α-hydroxy-α-phenyl)methyl]pyrrole. Spectroscopic evidence indicates the existence of two different tautomeric forms at room temperature in porphyrin (6). A third form of tautomer was observed when the temperature was lowered to 223 K. The most stable tautomer is one in which the nitrogenic proton resides outside the core of the macrocycle. The ratio of the three different tautomers (outer N-H/ two inner N-H, i.e. 6/12/13) was 1/l/0.5 in the case of (6) while the ratio of 1/l/0.3 was observed in the case of (10). In the case of 21-oxa-23-carba-12-aza-5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin (7), the only stable tautomeric form observed by 1H NMR was the one that nitrogenic proton resides inside the core on

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.395-399
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• 1986

Intramolecular proton transfer equilibria of acetamide and methyl carbamate have been studied theoretically by MNDO MO method. For both substrates, carbonyl-O protonated tautomer was found to be the most stable form, the next most stable one being N-protonated form. Gas phase proton transfers take place by the 1,3-proton rearrangement process and in all cases have prohibitively high activation barriers. When however one solvate water molecule participates in the process, the barriers are lowered substantially and the process proceeds in an intermolecular manner through the intermediacy of the water molecule via a triple-well type potential energy surface; three wells correspond to reactant(RC), intermediate(IC) and product complex(PC) of proton donor-acceptor pairs whereas two transition states(TS) have proton-bridge structure. General scheme of the process can be represented for a substrate with two basic centers(heteroatoms) of A and B as, $$ABH\limits^+\;+\;H_2O\;{\to}\;ABH\limits^+{\cdots}{\limits_{RC}}OH_2\;{\to}\;AB{\cdots}H\limits_{TS}^+{\cdots}{\limits_{1}}OH_2\;{\to}\;AB{\cdots}{\limits_{IC}}H\limits^+OH_2\;{\to}\;BA{\cdots}H\limits_{TS}^+{\cdots}{\limits_{2}}OH_2\;{\to}\;BA H\limits^+{\cdots}{\limits_{PC}}OH_2\;{\to}\;BAH\limits^+\;+\;H_2O$$ Involvement of a second solvate water had negligible effect on the relative stabilities of the tautomers but lowered barrier heights by 5∼6 Kcal/mol. It was calculated that the abundance of the methoxy-O protonated tautomer of the methyl carbamate will be negligible, since the tautomer is unfavorable thermodynamically as well as kinetically. Fully optimized stationary points are reported.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1675-1679
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• 2003

The photodynamics of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer reaction of 1-hydroxyanthraquinone (1-HAQ) and 1-deuterioanthraquinone was investigated in toluene with time-resolved emission and femtosecond transient transmittance techniques at room temperature. The temporal profiles of transient transmittance of 1-HAQ could be well described with multi-decaying time constants. The ultrafast time constant within ca. 260 fs reflects the dynamics of proton transfer. The decay component of 2 ps is assigned to an additional proton translocation process induced by the intramolecular vibrational relaxation, whereas the decay component of 18 ps is assigned to the vibrational cooling process, while the long component (200 ps) can be explained in terms of the relaxation from excited-state keto-tautomer to its ground state. Time-resolved anisotropy decay dynamics and isotope effects on the photodynamics reveals that the ESIPT from enol-tautomer to keto-one of 1-HAQ is barrierless reaction and coupled to a vibrational relaxation process.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.22-26
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• 1991

Potential energy surfaces for the proton transfer in a formamide dimer have been obtained by ab initio SCF calculations with STO-3G, 3-21G, and 4-31G basis sets and several features have been discussed. Energy minima for a formamide dimer and its tautomer are varied with basis sets. But the general features of the potential energy surfaces are similar among them.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.103-106
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• 1998

The oxidation product bis(2-oxo-3H-1,3,4-thiadiazolidinyl)-5,5-disulfide (5b) was obtained from an attempted synthesis of 5-thioxo-3H,4H-1,3,4-thiadiazolidin-2-one (1). Spectroscopic results indicate that the most stable tautomeric form of 1 is the lactam-thiol form (1b). The computed total energies and relative energies at the MP4 level also showed that the most stable tautomer is 1b.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.80-85
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• 1980

The free radical copolymeriaztion of N-vinylurea(VU) with vinyl acetate (VAc) was carried out at $60^{\circ}C$ in three solvents. VU-vinyl alcohol(VA) copolymers were prepared by the methanolysis of the VU-VAc copolymers. From the nitrogen content measurements of VU-VA copolymers, the monomer reactivity ratios for the VU-VAc copolymerization and the values of Alfrey-Price's Q and e for VU were determined. These Q and $\varrho$ values obtained in the cases of using methanol and methanol-dioxane as the polymerization solvents are comparable with those found for other monomers which have > NCO-pendent groups. The $\varrho$ value indicates that the urea group of VU is a electron-donating group. The copolymerization parameter of VU shows a strong effect of the solvents. These results are interpreted to be that VU is in equilibrium with its tautomer at the polymerization temperature.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.3495-3501
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• 2014

A novel crystal, the mono-protonated metformin acetate (1), was obtained and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. It was found that one of the imino group in the metformin cation was protonated along with the proton transfer from the secondary amino group to the other imino group. Its crystal structure was then compared with the previously reported diprotonated metformin oxalate (2). The difference between them is that the mono-protonated metformin cations can be linked by hydrogen bonding to form dimers while the diprotonated metformin cations cannot. Both of them are stabilized by intermolecular hydrogen bonds to assemble a 3-D supermolecular structure. The four potential tautomer of the mono-protonated metformin cation (tautomers 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d) were optimized and their single point energies were calculated by Density Functional Theory (DFT) B3LYP method based on the Polarized Continuum Model (PCM) in water, which shows that the most likely existed tautomer in human cells is the same in the crystal structure. Based on the optimized structure, their Wiberg bond orders, Natural Population Analysis (NPA) atomic charges, molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) maps were calculated to analyze their electronic structures, which were then compared with the corresponding values of the diprotonated metformin cation (cation 2) and the neutral metformin (compound 3). Finally, the possible tautomeric mechanism of the mono-protonated metformin cation was discussed based on the observed phenomena.