QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDIES OF CHARGE-TRANSFER COMPLEXES OF INDOLES
- 1 September 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 54 (3) , 659-664
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.54.3.659
Abstract
The capacity of a series of indoles to form charge-transfer complexes was not exactly correlated with the energies of the highest occupied molecular orbitals, but was instead correlated with electrophilic superdelocalizability of the C-3 atom. These results support the idea that this atom is involved in a localized charge-transfer complex, and this possibility is discussed. Some biological implications of this work are also suggested.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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