Formation of Complexes in Benzene-Oxalyl Chloride Solutions

Abstract
Extinction coefficients have been obtained for solutions of oxalyl chloride diluted with benzene, n‐heptane, and me‐cyclohexane; and for solutions of diacetyl, acetyl bromide, acetyl chloride, α‐methyl acrolein, and crotonaldehyde diluted with benzene and n‐heptane. It has been possible to correlate the observed data in the infrared, Raman, and ultraviolet spectra of oxalyl chloride‐benzene solutions by postulating a complex formation of the type Ar+[COCl]2.
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