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. 2020 Nov 25;21(23):8961. doi: 10.3390/ijms21238961

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Azo-hydrazone tautomerization of azoaxitinib (2). Due to the tautomeric equilibrium, the azo double bond is temporally turned into a free rotating single bond. This allows for fast relaxation from Z-isomer (Z-2a) to the thermodynamically stable E-isomer (E-2a) by rotation and subsequently back tautomerization.