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

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.