R. Cierpiszewski et al., RATE OF COPPER-EXTRACTION AND STRUCTURE OF MODEL BETA-DIKETONES AND 4-ACYL-5-PYRAZOLONES, Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, 228(1-2), 1998, pp. 71-76
The rate of copper extraction with individual 4-acyl-5-pyrazolones and
the stability of various enolic and keto forms and their monohydrates
were studied. The rate of extraction depends mainly upon the structur
e of substituent at position 4 and falls when the substituent becomes
spacy. The effect of the substituent at position 1 is rather low. The
enolic form with intramolecular hydrogen bonding is the most stable. I
t can form hydrates with water molecules without intramolecular hydrog
en bond breaking.