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THE vibration spectrum of tetrachlorethylene has been discussed by me1 and later by Linnett and Thompson2. It is of particular interest in that the value for the C—C force constant (6.25 × 105dynes/cm.) seemed abnormally low for a double bond. This was taken to indicate resonance between other possible structures in which the carbon atoms were linked by a single bond.
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DUCHESNE, J. Assignment of the Fundamental Frequencies and Computation of the Potential Function of Tetrachlorethylene. Nature 142, 256 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142256a0
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