Wa. Hada et al., STRUCTURE OF 3,4-DIHYDROXY-2-THIOPHENECARBOXYLIC ACID ETHYL-ESTER IN THE CRYSTAL AND SOLUTION STATES, Tetrahedron letters, 34(51), 1993, pp. 8229-8232
The structure of 3,4-dihydroxy-2-thiophenecarboxylic acid ethyl ester
was proven by NMR and X-ray crystallographic analysis. Under ah condit
ions assessed this compound existed as the dihydroxy tautomer 2.