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RECENTLY, there have been a number of reports on infrared spectroscopic studies of hydrogen bonding in gaseous mixtures. These studies, chiefly by D. J. Millen and his colleagues, have included amine-alcohol1, ether–nitric acid2 and ether–hydrogen chloride3 complexes. These workers have measured the infra-red spectra of these gaseous, hydrogen bonded complexes in the region of the O—H stretching frequency. After complexing, they found for all the systems a strong central band with a subsidiary band on both the high and low frequency sides. The central band has been assigned to the hydrogen bonded O—H stretching vibration and the side bands have been interpreted as sum and difference combinations of the O—H stretching vibration with the hydrogen bond stretching vibration. This interpretation has been offered as a general explanation for the broadening of the O—H stretching band on hydrogen bonding and has allowed a prediction of the hydrogen bond stretching frequency in these complexes.
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CARLSON, G., WITKOWSKI, R. & FATELEY, W. Far Infra-red Studies of Hydrogen Bonding in Gaseous Mixtures. Nature 211, 1289–1291 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111289a0
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