61. Structure of benzene. Part XVII. The Raman and infra-red spectra of 1 : 3 : 5-trideuterobenzene : description and analysis

On the nonexistent Nobel Prizes for two pioneers of modern physical organic chemistry: Sir Christopher K. Ingold and Saul Winstein†

“…First, in 1946, Ingold and his colleagues published a series of 11 consecutive publications in the Journal of the Chemical Society comprising 112 pages establishing the hexagonal structure of benzene 29–39 . As mentioned above, Ingold was an author of only seven of these publications, but clearly his hand was active and central to all 11.…”

“…First, in 1946, Ingold and his colleagues published a series of 11 consecutive publications in the Journal of the Chemical Society comprising 112 pages establishing the hexagonal structure of benzene. [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] As mentioned above, Ingold was an author of only seven of these publications, but clearly his hand was active and central to all 11. In these studies, Ingold and his colleagues synthesized a series of deuterated benzenes and analyzed their infrared and Raman spectra, and "the structure of benzene, which had begun in 1865 by Kekulé, was finally solved in its entirety."…”

Infrared Spectroscopy

“…The most complete collection of spectra of any one class is the American Petroleum Institute Project 44 on hydrocarbons referred to above. Among the classes of compounds studied are: conjugated double bond systems such as di-, tri-, and tetraenes, azines, and furals (40), nucleic acids (89), methylcyclopropanes (27), penicillins (22,112), deuterated benzenes (8)(9)(10)(11), orthosubstituted cyclohexanones (51), urinary ketosteroids (87,(108)(109)(110)(111), disubstituted benzenes (82, 85), Pennsylvania lubricating oils (139), synthetic rubber (25, 61, 97, 144), the carbonyl stretching vibration in steroids (151, 153) and in ketones (50), drying oils (164), amino acids and their complexes (163,(174)(175)(176)(177), polyalkylene sulfides (189), alkylphenols (161), cyclopentanes and cyclohexanes (218), tocopherols and related molecules (237), fatty acids (226), octenes dienes, and mono-olefins (227)(228)(229)(230), dicarboxylic acids (242), indoles (249-251), useful infrared solvents (278), organosilicon polymers (301), and cresols, xylenols, and cresvlic acids (287).…”

“…Midzushima et al (37,38) determined the constituents of several Sanga-Sanga and north Suma tora gasolines. Delwaulle, Francois, and Weimann (11) and Okazaki (43, 44) analyzed several fuels prepared by the Fischer method using the Raman technique. Rank, Scott, and Fenske (53) outlined a method using an internal intensity standard and applied this to the analysis of hydrocarbon mixtures.…”

FTIR Study of the Fundamental Bands of 1,3,5-Trideuterobenzene in the Range1400–1000 cm−1

“…4 The first spectroscopic investigations of trideuterobenzene go back to 1946, when Ingold and co-workers determined the assignment of all Raman-and IR-active vibration bands (1). 4 The first spectroscopic investigations of trideuterobenzene go back to 1946, when Ingold and co-workers determined the assignment of all Raman-and IR-active vibration bands (1).…”