W. Gordy
Mar 1, 1939
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Journal of Chemical Physics
Abstract
The method of infra‐red spectroscopy has been used to study solutions of chloroform and bromoform in various electron donor solvents, including ketones, esters, ethers and amines. In the region of 4μ, a band has been observed which apparently is not characteristic of the spectrum of either the solute or solvent. Because of the intensity of the band it is thought to be a fundamental. The most reasonable interpretation seems to be that it is an NH or OH vibrational band resulting from intermolecular hydrogen bond formation between the CH haloform group and a N or O of the solvent. The band for the bromoform solutions is weaker than that for the corresponding chloroform solutions.