Research Article

Synthesis and Spectral Characterisation of (E)-3-(3-(4 (Dimethylamino)Phenyl)Acrylo-yl)-4-Hydroxy-2H-Chromen-2-One and Their Antibacterial Activity and Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition

Figure 9

Optimized structures of the keto (A) and enol (B) tautomers of coumarin 3 and their charge distributions. The arrows indicate the direction of the dipole moment for each tautomer that was determined using the B3LYB/6-31G(d) level of theory. The lengths along the dipole-moment directions give the relative magnitudes of dipole moments for both tautomers.