The protolytic equilibria of 13 4-aryl-2,4-dioxobutanoic acids (ADKs) were spectrophotometrically studied in aqueous solutions in the pH range 1-9 at 25??1??C and an ionic strength of 0.1 mol l (NaCl), with the exception of the 4-OH-derivative which was also potentiometrically studied in the pH range 7-10 at 25??1??C and an ionic strength of 0.1 mol l (NaCl). In solution, the compounds simultaneously exist in one diketo and two enolic forms; therefore, the determined acidity constants (pZ 1.87-2.29, pK 6.63-8.13 and pK(4-OH-) 9.52) represent system macro constants. The H-NMR spectrum of the parent compound (4-phenyl-2,4-dioxobutanoic acid) (25??C, pD 5.0) proved the existence of all tautomeric forms. Using the extended Hammett relation, the determined pK values were correlated with literature ?? values. The predicted pK values were in fair accordance with the experimentally observed ones. Molecular, monoanionic and dianionic forms of the parent compound were optimized by the semi-empirical molecular orbital PM6 method using the implicit water solvation model (COSMO). The obtained geometries were used to explain the quality of the LFER models
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