Tautomeric composition and tautomeric transformation sequence of 1,4-bis(alkylamino)anthraquinones

Compounds widely known as 1,4-bis(alkylamino)-9,10-anthraquinones are in fact neither individual substances nor substituted 9,10-anthraquinones but equilibrium mixtures of tautomers. Their aminoimine tautomeric transformations follow the sequence 4,9-bis(alkylamino)-1,10-anthraquinones ? 9-alkylamino-4-(alkylimino)-10-hydroxy-1,4-dihydroanthracen-1-ones ? N ¹,N ¹⁰-dialkyl-4,9-dihydroxy-1,10-dihydroanthracene-1,10-diimines.     

Kinetic and thermodynamic study of inter‐ and intramolecular proton transfer in N′‐acetyl formohydrazide tautomers

Nine tautomers and eleven possible tautomeric interconversions of N′‐acetyl formohydrazide have been studied at B3LYP/6‐311++G** level of theory. From these calculations, optimized geometries, molecular parameters, IR frequencies, NMR chemical shifts, and energetic results are obtained. In all tautomers except tautomers 4, E isomer is more stable than Z isomer. Energetic data were used to calculate the energy barriers of tautomeric interconversions and very high energy barriers were obtained for all tautomeric interconversions. Moreover, study of solvent effects on relative stabilities of tautomers and transition states showed that they are similar to those in the gas phase. In addition, intermolecular proton transfer with the assistance of one to three water molecules has been studied and the results showed that activation barriers in water‐assisted tautomerism are in general lower than those in the gas phase. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2011     

Tautomerism of Anthraquinones: I. Purpurin and Anions Derived Therefrom

A procedure was proposed for quantitative analysis of tautomeric equilibria of organic compounds. Purpurin was found to exist mainly as 9,10-, 1,4-, and 1,10-anthraquinoid tautomers, its monoanion, as 1,10-anthraquinoid tautomer, the dianion, as 1,10- and 2,9-anthraquinoid tautomers, and the trianion, as 1,10-, 1,4-, and 2,9-anthraquinoid tautomers. Tautomeric transformations occur both in the ground and in the excited states, and the corresponding changes of quantum-chemical parameters in these states are essentially different. The excited states are more sensitive to tautomeric transformations than the ground states.__________Translated from Zhurnal Organicheskoi Khimii, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2005, pp. 43–50.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Fain, Zaitsev, Ryabov.     

Quantum-chemical and correlation study of deprotonation and complexation of 1-amino-4-hydroxyanthraquinone

Existing views on the deprotonation and complexation of 1-amino-4-hydroxyanthraquinone are wrong. This compound, its anions, and complexes with metals are not individual substances, but they form a dynamic equilibrium mixture of keto-enol (keto-oxide) and amino-imine tautomers. Different samples of the same compound differ by the tautomeric composition, the respective information is contained in their electron absorption spectra. In weak alkaline solutions the deprotonation occurs exclusively at the hydroxy group. Most typical structure of 1-amino-4-hydroxyanthraquinone anions is 1,10-quinoid, its metal complexes have 9,10-and 1,10-quinoid structures. The ground states of molecules are more responsible for the tautomeric transformations than the excited states. Quantum-chemical calculations of tautomeric anthraquinones by semiempirical PPP methods are more reliable than modern ab initio calculations.     

Investigation in the Series of Substituted Butan- and Butenolides: XV. Transformations of 4-Hydroxy-2-butenolide in Water Media at Various pH Values

The 4-hydroxy-2-butenolide was established by polarographic method to undergo in water solutions fast tautomeric and acid-base transformations. Depending on pH of the medium the compound is present either as a cyclic irreducible form (at pH 0-4) or in the open-chain (carbonyl-containing) reducible forms (at pH > 4 and < 0). It is presumed that in going from the basic to strongly acidic medium and backwards occur consecutive equilibrium transitions of four species: cis--formylacrylic acid anion (A^-), its neutral molecule (HA) existing as linear and cyclic tautomers, and protonated forms (H₂A⁺ and H₃A⁺). The formation mechanism thereof is considered.     

Prototropic tautomers of 5‐methylcytosine and enthalpy changes of their protonation,deprotonation, and deamination: Hybrid density functional B3LYP study

Molecular and thermodynamic properties such as geometric parameters, dipole moments, vibrational frequencies, the first ionization potentials, relative tautomerization energies, and tautomeric equilibrium constants of all prototropic tautomers of 5‐methylcytosine have been studied at the hybrid density functional level B3LYP/6‐31+G(d,p). The methylation on the C5 atom does not lead to significant geometric deformation of the pyrimidine structures of the corresponding tautomers of cytosine, which maintains the similar stability order. The tautomeric species 2‐oxo‐4‐amino [T(0)], 2‐hydroxy‐4‐amino [T(1‐2s) and T(1‐2t)], and trans‐2‐oxo‐4‐imino [T(3‐4t)] are predominated in the gas phase. The zwitterionic conformers of tautomerism [T(1‐4)] and protonation [P(4), P(1‐2s‐4), P(1‐2t‐4), and P(1‐3‐4)] are investigated for the first time due to their close relationship with deamination during genetic repair. Enthalpy changes (Δ_rH) of protonation, deprotonation, and deamination are calculated for these tautomeric species at room temperature; it is noted that the relative enthalpies [δ(ΔH)] of the tautomers are rationalized well in terms of a second‐order polynomial of the sum of the mean Δ_rH values of protonation and deprotonation processes. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2002     

Density functional theory study on molecular structure and vibrational IR spectra of isocytosine

Density functional theory with the combined Becke3-LYP exchange-correlation energy functional [DFT(B3-LYP) method] using the 6-31G(d, p) basis set is applied to predict molecular parameters (geometries, rotational constants, dipole moments) and vibrational IR spectra (harmonic wavenumbers, absolute intensities) of six tautomers of the isocytosine molecule. The results are compared with the corresponding data calculated at the conventional ab initio Hartree-Fock (HF) level using the same basis set and with available experimental data. Calculations show that (a) three amino tautomers are slightly nonplanar species with, evidently, a distorted amino group, (b) the DFT (B3-LYP)/6-31G(d, p) method predicts better molecular parameters, than do the HF calculations, and (c) the DFT(B3-LYP)-calculated vibrational IR spectra of isocytosine agree well with the available recorded IR spectra, and they show marked improvement over the IR spectra predicted at the HF/6-31G(d, p) level. Tautomeric stabilities of isocytosine are discussed on the basis of computed electronic energies by the DFT(B3-LYP) and ab initio approaches [including the MP2 and MP4(SDQ) calculations of electronic energies] and predicted zero-point vibrational energies by DFT(B3-LYP) and HF methods. This relative energies at 0 K of the tautomeric forms of isocytosine predicted by both conventional ab initio and DFT(B3-LYP) methods correlate well with the experimental data, showing the predominance of the aminohydroxy tautomer of isocytosine for an isolated molecule. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Quantum chemical studies on prototautomerism of 1H‐imidazo[4,5‐c]pyridine

The structural features of the 1H‐imidazo[4,5‐c]pyridine (ICPY) tautomers and homodimers of the most stable tautomers have been studied by quantum chemical methods. FTIR and Raman spectra of the ICPY were recorded in the range of 4000–60 cm^?1 and 3500–5 cm^?1. The predominant tautomer among four possible isomers of ICPY were determined. The optimized geometries and vibrational frequencies of possible ICPY tautomers and dimers were computed by B3LYP/DFT method with 6‐311++G(d,p) and 6‐31G(d) basis sets. All vibrational frequencies assigned in detail with the help of total energy distribution (TED) and isotopic shifts. ICPY dimeric forms were also characterized according to their hydrogen bonding interactions, and it has been found that the most stable ICPY homodimer establishes moderate strong N ? H …N type hydrogen bond. ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR, and ¹⁵N NMR properties have been calculated for all tautomeric forms using the gauge independent atomic orbital (GIAO) method. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2011     

Electronic structure of π-systems. Studies of electronic structures and tautomeric transformations of a series of 4-methyl-8-(R-phenylazo)dihydrofuro[2,3-<Emphasis Type="Italic">h</Emphasis>]coumarin-9-ones

Tautomeric transformations of a series of 4-methyl-8-(R-phenylazo)dihydrofuro[2,3-h]-coumarin-9-ones were studied by ¹H NMR, IR, electronic absorption spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and quantum chemistry methods. The obtained results suggest that (p-R-phenyl)-derivatives exist in the quinone hydrazone form, while (o-R-phenyl)derivatives exist as a mixture of quinone hydrazone and azo enol tautomers with domination of the former. The anti-quinone hydrazone tautomers with a strong intramolecular hydrogen bond are more favorable than the syn-quinone hydrazone tautomers.     

Comparative Study of the Structure of Rhodanine, Isorhodanine, Thiazolidine-2,4-dione, and Thiorhodanine

Ab initio (HF and MP2 level) and semiempirical (AM1, PM3, MNDO) calculations on the relative stabilities and structures of the potential tautomeric forms of rhodanine, isorhodanine, thiazolidine-2,4-dione, and thiorhodanine are reported. Ab initio calculations predict that the thiooxo, oxothio, dioxo, and dithio tautomers are the most stable. These results correspond to the known experimental data. Infrared spectra of the investigated compounds were recorded for the region 4000-150 cm^-1, and the characteristic bands were compared with ab initio calculated frequencies at the HF/3-21G^(*)* level.     

Substituent effects on the tautomer ratios between the hydra-zone imine and diazenyl enamine forms in 3-(arylhydra-zono)methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoxalines. Correlation of the hammett constants σp with the tautomeric equilibrium constants KT

The 3-(arylhydrazono)methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoxalines 1a-e and 2a-i showed tautomeric equilibria between the hydrazone imine A and diazenyl enamine B forms in dimethyl sulfoxide media. The sub-stituent effects on the tautomer ratios of A to B in compounds 1a-e and 2a-i were studied by the nmr spec-troscopy. The electron-donating or electron-withdrawing p-substituents R¹ in compounds 2a-i represented a tendency to increase the ratios of the tautomer A or the tautomer B , respectively, exhibiting the linear correlation of the Hammett constants σ_p (-0.17 to +0.78) with the tautomer ratios of A to B or the tautomeric equilibrium constants K_T. However, the presence of the ester group R² in compounds 1a-e induced the exclusive existence of the tautomer A regardless of the nature of the p-substituents R¹. In the tautomeric thermodynamic study, the elevating temperature increased the ratios of the hydrazone imine tautomer A in compounds 2a-i . The tautomeric thermodynamic parameters ΔG°, ΔH° and ΔS° were derived from the van't Hoff plots for compounds 2a , b , h , i , wherein the entropy term dominated the free-energy difference between the A and B tautomers.     

Nitrogen Bridgehead Compounds. Part 81. Synthesis of 9-(benzylidenehydrazono)-6-methyl-4-oxo-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro- and 9-(benzylidenehydrazine)-6-methyl-4-oxo-6,7-dihydro-4H-pyrido[1,2-a]-pyrimidine-3-carboxylates

Reaction of ethyl 9-hydrazono-6-methyl-4-oxo-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-4H-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidine-3-carboxylate and benzaldehyde and its derivatives give a tautomeric mixture of 9-arylidenehydrazono-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro- and 9-arylidenehydrazine-6,7-dihydropyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidine derivatives. In the same case the enhydrazine and hydrazone tautomers were separated. The structure of the products were characterised by uv, ir, ¹H and ¹³C nmr. The equilibrium of the tautomers was affected by the substituent of the phenyl ring. A fair linear correlation exists between the logarithms of the equilibrium constants and Hammett σ_m and σ^? constants of the substituents present on the phenyl ring.     

DFT <Emphasis Type="Italic">ab initio</Emphasis> study of the keto-enol tautomerism of barbituric acid

Summary Eight possible tautomeric forms of barbituric acid have been studied using the Gaussian-98 program at a B3LYP/D95** level of computation. All of them are considered in the isolated state in order to find the transition states between pairs of tautomers. The energies of the transition states were used for subsequent estimation of the energy barriers of the tautomeric transformations.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by V. B. DelchevTranslated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 602–610, July–August, 2004.This revised version was published online in April 2005 with a corrected cover date.     

Polarized Raman spectra IX. Low Frequency Vibrations in Crystallne Trans-Stilbene

Raman spectrum of powdered crystalline trans-stilbene is recorded by a laser Raman spectrometer. The intensity of a low frequency skeleton bending vibration at 220 cm⁻¹ is observed to be very weak. Its Raman intensity, after corrected for the photocathode response and for the v⁴ scattering factor, agrees within 10% of the theoretically calculated value. It is therefore proved that the intensity of a Raman active vibration is proportional to the square of its vibrational frequency, if only one excited state is involved in the scattering process. Lattice vibrations in trans-stilbene crystal are also reported.     

Ultrafast Vibrational Population Transfer Dynamics in 2‐Acetylcyclopentanone Studied by 2D IR Spectroscopy

2‐Acetylcyclopentanone (2‐ACP), which is a β‐dicarbonyl compound, undergoes keto–enol isomerization, and its enol tautomers are stabilized by a cyclic intramolecular hydrogen bond. 2‐ACP (keto form) has symmetric and asymmetric vibrational modes of the two carbonyl groups at 1748 and 1715 cm^?1, respectively, which are well separated from the carbonyl modes of its enol tautomers in the FTIR spectrum. We have investigated 2‐ACP dissolved in carbon tetrachloride by 2D IR spectroscopy and IR pump–probe spectroscopy. Vibrational population transfer dynamics between the two carbonyl modes were observed by 2D IR spectroscopy. To extract the population exchange dynamics (i.e., the down‐ and uphill population transfer rate constants), we used the normalized volumes of the cross‐peaks with respect to the diagonal peaks at the same emission frequency and the survival and conditional probability functions. As expected, the downhill population transfer time constant (3.2 ps) was measured to be smaller than the uphill population transfer time constant (3.8 ps). In addition, the vibrational population relaxation dynamics of the two carbonyl modes were observed to be the same within the experimental error and were found to be much slower than vibrational population transfer between two carbonyl modes.     

Tautomerism of xanthine: The second-order MØller-Plesset study

Four 9H and four 7H tautomers of DNA base xanthine were studied by the ab initio LCAO-MO method at the MP2/6-311G^**//HF/6-31G^** and MP2/6-31G^**//HF/6-31G^** approximations. All calculated structures are minima at the HF/6-31G^** potential energy surface with the dioxo 7H tautomer (A1) being the global minimum. The second most stable tautomer, dioxo-9H (B1) is by 9 kcal/mol less stable. For the A1 B1 transition the calculated MP2 energy gap corresponds to the equilibrium constant of 2 × 10^–7. Therefore, only the major tautomeric form A1 is predicted to be detectable in the gas phase. The 7H and 9H groups of tautomers are discussed separately. Within both groups, the dioxo form (A1-7H, B1-9H) is the most stable one and is succeeded by the 2-dihydroxy (A2, B2) form. However, while the energy difference between A1 and A2 is 10 kcal/mol, the energy difference between B1 a B2 is only 2 kcal/mol. The effect of polar environment was estimated by the SCRF method, using a spherical cavity, at the HF/6-31G^** level. These calculations did not change the gas phase stability order of the tautomers. However, the energy difference between A1 and B1 decreased from 9 kcal/mol at the HF/6-31G^** level to 4 kcal/mol at the SCRF HF/6-31G^** level.     

Excited-State Dynamics of Thienoguanosine,an Isomorphic Highly Fluorescent Analogue of Guanosine

Thienoguanosine (^thG) is an isomorphic analogue of guanosine with promising potentialities as fluorescent DNA label. As a free probe in protic solvents, ^thG exists in two tautomeric forms, identified as the H1, being the only one observed in nonprotic solvents, and H3 keto–amino tautomers. We herein investigate the photophysics of ^thG in solvents of different polarity, from water to dioxane, by combining time-resolved fluorescence with PCM/TD-DFT and CASSCF calculations. Fluorescence lifetimes of 14.5–20.5 and 7–13 ns were observed for the H1 and H3 tautomers, respectively, in the tested solvents. In methanol and ethanol, an additional fluorescent decay lifetime (≈3 ns) at the blue emission side (λ≈430 nm) as well as a 0.5 ns component with negative amplitude at the red edge of the spectrum, typical of an excited-state reaction, were observed. Our computational analysis explains the solvent effects observed on the tautomeric equilibrium. The main radiative and nonradiative deactivation routes have been mapped by PCM/TD-DFT calculations in solution and CASSCF in the gas phase. The most easily accessible conical intersection, involving an out-of plane motion of the sulfur atom in the five-membered ring of ^thG, is separated by a sizeable energy barrier (≥0.4 eV) from the minimum of the spectroscopic state, which explains the large experimental fluorescence quantum yield.     

Tautomerism and ionization of carminic acid

Carminic acid exists as an equilibrium mixture of 9,10-, 1,4-, 1,10-, 2,9-, and 1,7-anthraquinoid tautomers. Its anions have 9,10-, 1,4-, 1,10-, and 2,9-anthraquinoid structures. No conformational equilibria were detected for carminic acid anions. Variation of the solvent and pH and ionization are accompanied by displacements of tautomeric equilibria. Shifts of the long-wave absorption maxima due to tautomeric transformations are determined mainly by change in the energy of the ground rather than excited states of molecules.     

DFT studies on tautomeric preferences of 1-(pyridin-2-yl)-4-(quinolin-2-yl)butane-2,3-dione in the gas phase and in solution

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that in vacuum such α-diketone as 1-(pyridin-2-yl)-4-(quinolin-2-yl)butane-2,3-dione is much less stable than its enolimine–enaminone ((1Z,3Z)-3-hydroxy-4-(pyridin-2-yl)-1-(quinolin-2(1H)-ylidene)but-3-en-2-one) and dienaminone tautomers ((1Z,3Z)-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-4-(quinolin-2-yl)buta-1,3-diene-2,3-diol). Other its tautomers (multiple basic and acidic centers in their molecules enable multiple proton transfer to take place) are even more labile. Strength of the intramolecular hydrogen bonds and aromatic character of the (quasi)rings [proved by the Harmonic Oscillator Model of Aromaticity (HOMA) index] in their molecules were found to be responsible for the observed tautomeric preferences. Polar and basic solvent disfavors and favors the enolimine and enaminone tautomers, respectively.