1 - - 1,2,3-triazoles, tautomerism

Dipole moments and total energies for pyrazolo[l,5-h]-s-triazole tautomeric forms 97a-97c were calculated using CNDO/2 and CNDO/S (76T341) the results predict the stability of tautomers in a 97a > 97b > 97c sequence. So far, no ab initio calculations or synthesis of 97 have been reported. For pyrazolo[3,2-c]-s-triazole 98 (76T341), the calculated dipole moments, electronic absorption, and proton chemical shifts are in a good... 

For the NH azoles (Table 3), the two tautomeric forms are usually rapidly equilibrating on the NMR timescale (except for triazole in HMPT). The iV-methyl azoles (Table 4) are fixed chemical shifts are shifted downfield by adjacent nitrogen atoms, but more by a pyridine-like nitrogen than by a pyrrole-like iV-methyl group. 

Annular tautomerism (e.g. 133 134) involves the movement of a proton between two annular nitrogen atoms. For unsubstituted imidazole (133 R = H) and pyrazole (135 R = H) the two tautomers are identical, but this does not apply to substituted derivatives. For triazoles and tetrazoles, even the unsubstituted parent compounds show two distinct tautomers. Flowever, interconversion occurs readily and such tautomers cannot be separated. Sometimes one tautomeric form predominates. Thus the mesomerism of the benzene ring is greater in (136) than in (137), and UV spectral comparisons show that benzotriazole exists predominantly as (136). 

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