Figure 1.
Diketone variant ONE with NH…O hydrogen bonding. Species ONE-A and ONE-B (which lacks the NH…O = H bond) proceed spontaneously upon optimization to ONE, which lies about 4.0 kJ/mol above the most stable isomer TWO.
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