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IT has been shown by several workers1–4 that there is a rough correlation between the lowest ionization potential of an electron donor and the frequency of the maximum of the charge-transfer band (νCT) of lowest energy characteristic of the complex of the donor with a given acceptor. That the relation is not a very strict one is illustrated by Fig. 1, where such a plot is given for chloranil complexes in solution in carbon tetrachloride. The ionization potentials are those measured by Watanabe5 using a photo-ionization method.
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FOSTER, R. Absorption Spectra of Molecular Complexes. Nature 181, 337–338 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181337a0
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