UV Absorption spectra of charge-transfer complexes of iodine with some derivatives of epoxycyclohexane and of glycidyl ether

Abstract

UV spectroscopy has been used to study the relative donor power of some derivatives of epoxycyclohexane and of glycidyl ether in the formation of charge-transfer complexes (CTC) with iodine. It is shown that the introduction of a second epoxycyclohexane fragment into the molecule of a substituted 1,2-epoxycyclohexane considerably increases the stability of complexes with molecular iodine, and that the donor power of aromatic derivatives of glycidyl ether considerably exceeds that of their structural analogs, derivatives of anisole.