Charge-transfer complexes based on indole compounds (review)

The literature data on the donor-acceptor interaction of indoles with various types of electron acceptors used for the explanation of the molecular mechanisms of biochemical processes are examined. The results of research by the authors on the synthesis of polymeric charge-transfer complexes based on 1-vinylindole, halogens, hydrogen halides, alkyl halides, halohydrins, chloranil, and organic derivatives of silicon and tin are correlated.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1155–1163, September, 1977.