“…A possible explanation of this phenomenon seems to be that in all these orthoaldehydes which show an unusual high C-H frequency there exists a new and unusual kind of hydrogen bonding between the aldehydic hydrogen atom, which according to Walsh (32) possesses a partial positive charge (in contradistinction to an ordinary hydrogen atom bound to a carbon atom), and a nucleophilic acceptor in the ortho position, or near it. Such an acceptor can be a chlorine atom which, for example, forms hydrogen bonds in o-chlorophenol (31), etc., an etheric oxygen atom (11), or an oxygen atom of a nitro group (2,24).…”