Fei Wen-qing
2008
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Guide of China Medicine
Abstract
The ethyl acetoacetate molecular has two tautomers, ketone and enol. By analyzing the enol structure of the two tautomers, we found the content of enol would increase with the decrease of solvent's polar intensity. Especially when the solvent has active hydrogen atom, the solvent would significantly influence the content of enol. Furthermore, from the content of the enol structure, we found that the stronger the electron-donating effect of the group connected to methylene, the smaller the content of the enol structure.