Abstract: The absorption spectra of transient charge transfer (CT) complexes are observed immediately upon mixing iodine and various organometals RM, where M= tin, lead, and mercury. The formation constants KCT and the transition energies hvcr of these CT complexes vary with the ionization potentials and the steric properties of the alkylmetals. The subsequent disappearance of the CT absorption band is accompanied by the cleavage of ...
[Strecker Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1854 , vol. 92, p. 75 Jahresbericht ueber die Fortschritte der Chemie und Verwandter Theile Anderer Wissenschaften, 1854 , p. 541]