“…The tautomerism of ortho-hydroxyl aromatic azo compounds is a well-known phenomenon, which has attracted much attention of organic chemistry researchers because of its effects on the stability and properties of the materials (Bershtein and Ginzburg, 1972; Federov, 1988; Lyčka, 2000; Rauf et al , 2015). The influence of solvents and substituents on the structures of the hydroxyl-azo compounds leads researchers to determine the preferred tautomer(s) either in solid or in solution state (Ahmed et al , 1989; Antonov, 2019; Dardeer et al , 2021). It is also an accepted principle that there is a hydrazone ⇌ azo tautomeric equilibrium for hydroxyl-azo dyes in solution state, and this equilibrium can be affected by altering pH value (Lycka, 1993; Noroozi Pesyan et al , 2015; Hristova et al , 2017; Lađarevi et al , 2020; Zhao et al , 2021; Deneva et al , 2019).…”