Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1988, 53, 227-242
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19880227
Study of the azo-hydrazone tautomeric equilibrium by electronic spectroscopy and quantum chemistry. II. HMO calculations
Miloš Titz, Miloš Nepraš, Miroslav Nečas, Radim Hrdina, Stanislav Luňák, Jr. and Antonín Lyčka
Research Institute of Organic Syntheses, 532 18 Pradubice-Rybitví
This article is part of serial Study of the azo-hydrazone tautomeric equilibrium by electronic spectroscopy and quantum chemistry.
Abstract
Experimental data obtained in Part I of this work for p-hydroxy and p-amino derivatives of four arylazo compounds with different fused ring systems were correlated with some indices calculated by the simple HMO quantum chemical method in relation to the π-electron structure of the azo and hydrazone tautomers of the compounds studied. Mental fragmentation and the related stability of the systems expressed by Julg’s aromaticity indices of the hydrocarbon fragments appeared to be basically different for the two tautomers.
