The Crystal Structure of Formamidoxine

Abstract

Although substituted hydroxyamidines (a) are well known, the free compounds (b) appear to be tautomerically unstable, and have been considered better described as amidoximes (c).Although substituted hydroxyamidines are well known, the free compounds appear to be tautomerically unstable, and have been considered better described as amidoxines. They possess acidic properties analagous to those of the amines and undergo numberous reactions consistent with this latter structure.