Tautomerism

Amino acids are an important group of tautomeric molecules.

In chemistry, tautomerism is the ability of a molecule or other chemical species to change freely between several different shapes, called tautomers. It is a type of isomerism where the isomers can freely change into each other.

Sources

  1. ↑ IUPAC, Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. (the "Gold Book") (2025). Online version: (2006–) "tautomerism". doi:10.1351/goldbook.T06252