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Ketan Badwe

Is tautomerism in ketimines possible?

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I found something very similar to what I sought in Dose, Nature 179, 734 (1957) though it involves aldimines and a decarboxylation step. The author gives a very well explained mechanism for the process and reports varying transamination ratios of valine based on the substitution of the aldehyde. An example:

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