Aminomethylene derivatives of azoles

4-Aminoethylidene and 4-aminomethylene derivatives of 5-imidazolone exist in the enamine form as two isomers that are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds of the NHN and NHO type. In solution the enamine with a five-membered H ring is gradually converted to the corresponding isomer with a six-membered H ring with an NHO bond. Because of steric hindrance, rotation about the carbon-carbon double bond is realized more slowly in the aminoethylidene derivatives than in the aminomethylene derivatives of 5-imidazolone.See 1] for communication XXI.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 12, pp. 1677–1679, December, 1978.