In aqueous solution at 25 °C 9-formylfluorene is present mainly as its enol (72%, KE= 17) and hydrate (24%, Kh= 5.6); the unstable aldehyde (4%) may be generated for kinetic and equilibrium measurements by reaction of its ethanethiol hemithioacetal with iodine.
M. P. Harcourt and R. A. M. O'Ferrall, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1987, 822 DOI: 10.1039/C39870000822
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