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Chem. Commun., 2007, 2246 - 2248, DOI: 10.1039/b703070c

Probing the solvent-induced tautomerism of a redox-active ureidopyrimidinone

Anne-Marie Alexander, Marc Bria, Gunther Brunklaus, Stuart Caldwell, Graeme Cooke, James F. Garety, Shanika G. Hewage, Yann Hocquel, Niall McDonald, Gouher Rabani, Georgina Rosair, Brian O. Smith, Hans Wolfgang Spiess, Vincent M. Rotello and Patrice Woisel

A ferrocene-functionalised ureidopyrimidinone has been synthesised that can signal the solvent-induced tautomerism of the dimeric 4[1H]-pyrimidinone form to the monomeric 6[1H]-pyrimidinone form.

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