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Misassignment of the strong Raman band near 1000 cm −1 in some substituted benzenes, and the Herzberg versus Wilson convention for numbering the vibrations of benzene
Author(s) -
Miller Foil A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of raman spectroscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.748
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1097-4555
pISSN - 0377-0486
DOI - 10.1002/jrs.1250190313
Subject(s) - raman spectroscopy , benzene , ring (chemistry) , vibration , chemistry , plea , convention , crystallography , physics , law , optics , quantum mechanics , political science , organic chemistry
Mono, 1,3, 5‐substituted benzenes (and only these) have a very strong, highly poarized Raman band at 1000±10 cm −1 . It is often misassigned as the symmetrical ring breathing, whereas in fact it is derived from the benzene trigonal ring deformation v 6 . In the current literature the vibrations of benzene are numbered according to either the Herzberg or the Wilson scheme. A plea is made for using only one convention, and reasons are gigen for choosing Herzberg's.