PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON transfer AND PROTON transfer ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES IN THE REALM OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY. EXTENSIVE INTEREST HAS BEEN SHOWN BY THE PHOTOSCIENTISTS IN STUDYING EXCITED STATE INTER AND intramolecular PROTON transfer (ESPT AND ESIPT, RESPECTIVELY) REACTIONS OWING TO, IN PARTICULAR, THEIR SIMPLICITY AND DIVERSE APPLICATIONS [1].PROTON transfer IS ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL REACTIONS, AND IT IS FOUND UBIQUITOUSLY IN CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES. VARIOUS TYPES OF PROTON transfer HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN BOTH THE GROUND AND EXCITED STATES. EXCITED STATE intramolecular PROTON transfer (ESIPT) HAS RECEIVED MUCH ATTENTION BECAUSE OF THE SIMPLICITY OF ITS REACTION PATTERN. THE ESIPT SYSTEM GENERALLY REQUIRES HYDROGEN BONDING FORMATION BETWEEN VICINAL PROTON DONOR AND PROTON ACCEPTOR GROUPS [2]. IN THIS WORK, WE REPORTED OUR INVESTIGATION ON ESIPT, BASED ON THE EFFECT OF ATOMS SUBSTITUTIONS S, O AND N ON THE DERIVATIVES OF COMPOUND A. THE intramolecular PROTON transfer (IPT) IN THE GROUND (GSIPT) AND EXCITED (ESIPT) STATES OF A DERIVATIVES WERE STUDIED USING DFT-PBE1PBE/6-311++G (2D, 2P) AND TDDFTPBE1PBE/ 6-311++G (2D, 2P) LEVELS OF THEORY, RESPECTIVELY.POTENTIAL energy CURVES, DIPOLE MOMENT, REACTION COORDINATE AND OTHER GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED. THE RESULTS REVEALTHAT THE IPT PROCESS DOES NOT OCCUR IN THE GROUND STATE BUT IT IS FEASIBLE IN THE S1 STATE.