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Happily he let out that for years organic chemists had been arbitrarily favoring particular tautomeric forms over their alternatives on only the flimsiest of grounds.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

His schemes, until then unknown to us in detail, always dealt with groups of three bases, hydrogen-bonded in the middle, many of which we now knew to be in the wrong tautomeric forms.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

That night, however, I could not see why the common tautomeric form of guanine would not hydrogen- bond to adenine.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

In fact, organic-chemistry textbooks were littered with pictures of highly improbable tautomeric forms.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

The tautomeric forms I had copied out of Davidson’s book were, in Jerry’s opinion, incorrectly assigned.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson