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SOME recent spectroscopic studies1 have led to the identification of charge-transfer complexes in the gas phase, for the diethyl ether–iodine and the benzene–iodine systems. This was made possible by investigations of the charge-transfer ultra-violet band, and it was deduced, from the shift of the maximum of absorption, compared with that of the liquid-state system, that there is considerable interaction between the complex and the solvent molecules. To our knowledge, no direct evidence has previously been obtained by mass spectrometry of a charge-transfer molecular complex; this communication reports some preliminary results using this technique.
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CAHAY, R., COLLIN, J. Evidence for the Pyridine.2I2 Complex in the Gas Phase. Nature 211, 1175–1176 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111175a0
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