Due to the facile 1,3-B sigmatropic shifts and other skeletal rearrangement
s facilitated by the 2p atomic orbital of the boron atom, fast equilibria b
etween several tautomeric forms are characteristic for allylic triorganobor
anes. Spectrally the most thermodynamically stable isomers are observed, wh
ereas the minor more reactive tautomers often participate in chemical trans
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