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Nuclear magnetic reasonance studies have identified the ketollc as the major tautomer of (±) gossypol in basic solvent system. The hydroxymethylene proton of gossypol absorbs at δ 9.50 in aqueous sodium hydroxide. Acidification converts the ketol to the aldehyde tautomerla.
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Stipanovic et al. (1973) studied this question.
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