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1Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road No. 38, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, PR China.
Abstract:
FT-IR spectra of benzaldehyde in 11 different organic solvents were recorded and analyzed. The density functional theory (DFT) B3LYP/6-31G* method was chosen to calculate the infrared spectrum of benzaldehyde in gaseous state. The electrostatic effects of different solvents in benzaldehyde solutions were calculated using DFT with the self-consistent isodensity polarizable continuum model (SCI-PCM). Two remarkable carbonyl (C=O) peaks of benzaldehyde were observed by FT-IR in alcohol solvents, which were caused by different hydrogen bond species and explained by ab initio calculation. The results showed that the combination of SCI-PCM model and ab initio calculation could give excellent agreements with FT-IR spectra of title compound in solutions.
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