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Topic: Thalidomide tautomerization  (Read 4476 times)

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Offline dc1227

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Thalidomide tautomerization
« on: October 15, 2008, 12:59:39 AM »
can somebody explain what the intermediate of thalidomide looks like when the (s) enantiomer tautomerizes to the (r) enantiomer....what functional group would be formed by tautomerization?
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Offline Arkcon

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Re: Thalidomide tautomerization
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2008, 08:46:20 AM »
Well, for starters, can you define tautomer?  And can you draw the starting structure?
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