Abstract: | The tautomerism of 1-phenyl-3-methyl-4-benzyl-5-pyrazolone —a side product in the reaction of acetoacetic ester with benzaldehyde phenylhydrazone — was studied by IR and PMR spectroscopy, and its thermodynamic characteristics were determined.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 355–359, March, 1991. |