Journal of Molecular Liquids, vol.162, no.2, pp.84-88, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
The structural, tautomeric and acid-base properties of the new 1-phenyl-2-(2-hydroxy-3-sulfo-5-chlorophenylhydrazo)butane-1,3-dione (H 2L1), 1-phenyl-2-(2-hydroxy-3,5-disulfophenylhydrazo) butane-1,3-dione (H2L2), 1-phenyl-2-(2-hydroxy-3-sulfo-5- nitrophenylhydrazo)butane-1,3-dione (H2L3) and 1-phenyl-2-(2-hydroxy-4-nitrophenylhydrazo)butane-1,3-dione (H2L 4) were studied using IR, 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopies and potentiometry. The study reveals that H2L 1-4 and the known 1-phenyl-2-(2-hydroxyphenylhydrazo)butane-1,3-dione (H2L5) exist in solution as a mixture of Z-enol-azo-II and hydrazo-III tautomeric forms and that an increase in the solvent polarity shifts the tautomeric balance to the enol-azo form. The thermodynamic parameters of the proton dissociation in H2L1-5 were determined showing that this process is unspontaneous, endothermic and entropically unfavorable. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.