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How can these be tautomers when they do not contain an alpha-Hydrogen?

How can these be tautomers when they do not contain an alpha-Hydrogen?

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Suraj Prasad IIT Patna
askIITians Faculty 286 Points
9 years ago
Tautomers are constitutional isomers of organic compounds that readily interconvert by a chemical reaction called tautomerization. This reaction commonly results in the formal migration of a hydrogen atom or proton, accompanied by a switch of a single bond and adjacent double bond. The concept of tautomerizations is called tautomerism. Because of the rapid interconversion, tautomers are generally considered to be the same chemical compound. Tautomerism is a special case of structural isomerism
ANMOL SETH
36 Points
9 years ago
does it mean that the compound will show only structural isomerism.. and not tautomerism..??

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