Proton and carbon nuclear magnetic resonance study on some n- and o-acyl derivatives of monohydroxypyridines

Comparative study on the proton and carbon NMR spectra for a series of $\text{N}$- and $\text{O}$-acyl substituted monohydroxypyridines (C₅H₄NO$\text{R}$: $\text{R}$=-H, -CHO, -COCH₃, -COC(CH₃)₃, -COCF₃, -COC₆H₅, -SO₂CH₃, -SO₂C₆H₄CH₃ is reported. p]Characteristic ¹H, ¹³ NMR and IR spectral features allow simple and unambiguous distinction between the isomeric $\text{N}$- and/or $\text{O}$-acyl-derivatives of 2-, 3- and 4-hydroxypyridines, so that both forms can clearly be identified when tautomeric equilibria occur, since the tautomerism rate is slow on the NMR time scale