Synthesis of several new podands, bearing various terminal chromophori
c functions of formazan (9-11), verdazyl (18-20) and verdazylium salt
(21-23) types and having a different length of oligooxyethylene bridge
between chromophoric units, is developed. Calculated (Alchemy-2000) a
nd found (EPR data) distances between spin centers in bis-radicals 18-
20 correlate well. Such spin-labeled species could be good models for
the EPR study of host-guest interactions involving ethylene glycol-bas
ed podands.