@article{KlinkaBalentovaBernatetal.2006,
  author    = {Klinka, Karel D. and Balentova, Eva and Bern{\´a}t, Juraj and Imrich, Jan and Vavrusova, Martina and Kleinpeter, Erich and Pihlaja, Kalevi and Koch, Andreas},
  title     = {Tautomerism, regioisomerism, and cyclization reactions of acridinyl thiosemicarbazides},
  issn      = {0022-152X},
  doi       = {10.1002/jhet.5570430317},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {The regioselectivities of methyl- and phenylhydrazine with acridin-9-yl isothiocyanate (thus yielding thiosemicarbazides with acridine substituted on the urea-type side) were examined. Methythydrazine regioselectivity was high with the alpha-nitrogen atom overwhelmingly more nucleophilic than the beta-nitrogen atom; phenylhydrazine regioselectivity was poor but varied with the solvent and only in the case of ethanol was nucleophilic predominance of the alpha-nitrogen atom pronounced. Of note, whilst both phenyl thiosemicarbazides were present in solution only as spiro forms, the methyl product was present as an equilibrium mixture of open-chain and spiro thiosemicarbazides. Reactions on the NH2 blocked analogue of methyl acridin-9-ylthiosemicarbazide (1-isopropylidene-2- methylthiosemicarbazide) were also examined. Interestingly, present in the starting material itself was a structural motif of novelty wherein a triazolethione represented the major species of an equilibrium between cyclic and open-chain forms},
  language  = {en}
}