Ynol Tautomerization: The Molecular Ghosting

Ynol Tautomerization: The Molecular Ghosting
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The chemical equivalent of ghosting someone. One minute you're an ynol with your hydroxyl group happily attached, then a proton comes along and suddenly you're a ketene with your oxygen on the complete opposite end. Chemistry's version of "it's not you, it's me" followed by completely rearranging your molecular structure. Organic chemists spend years trying to stabilize these relationships only for H+ to slide into DMs and ruin everything.

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