JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE-THEOCHEM, cilt.684, ss.149-157, 2004 (SCI-Expanded)
The preferred tautomeric form of biologically active uric acid molecule was predicted using the gas phase semi-empirically calculated relative stabilities, aqueous phase calculated acidity constants and the other molecular properties. The obtained results had indicated that the trioxo, dioxo or monooxo forms are favored over the dihydroxy, monohydroxy or trihydroxy forms tautomerically, successively for ring-chain tautomerizm. The same trend, however, was not observed for annular the tautomerizm. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.