title: Application of infrared spectrometry to the study of tautomerism and conformational and configurational isomerism in medical and biochemical agents: N,N'-disubstituted amidines.
abstract: Infrared investigations on the v(NH) and v(C = N) vibrations of N,N'-disubstituted formamidines, acetamidines and benzamidines, containing the same or different groups at the amino and imino nitrogen atoms, and of some model compounds (N-monosubstituted amides, imidazoles and 2-aminopyridines), carried out in CCl4 at various temperatures and concentrations, and in other solvents, show that all the amidines studied have the E configuration on the C = N double bond and display conformational isomerism on the C-N single bond. Formamidines exist predominantly in the form of a conformer with a hydrogen atom synperiplanar to the imino nitrogen atom, and can form a cyclic dimer. In acetamidines and benzamidines the other conformer, with a hydrogen antiperiplanar to the imino nitrogen, prevails, and hence they can form mainly linear dimers. Different positions of the v(NH) and v(C = N) bands observed for N,N'-diaryl and N,N'-dialkyl derivatives permit determination of the composition of tautomeric mixtures in N-alkyl-N'-arylamidines.
authors.affiliation: Institute of General Chemistry, Agricultural University (SGGW), Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Raczyńska
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Laurence
mesh_terms: D000578:Amidines / Q000737:chemistry*; D007536:Isomerism; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D015394:Molecular Structure; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared / Q000379:methods; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D000578:Amidines