THE ELECTRICAL POLARIZATION OF 1,4-BENZOQUINONE AND RELATED SUBSTANCES

Abstract
A determination of the atom polarization of 1,4-benzoquinone from low-frequency infrared absorptions does not confirm the results of Becker and Charney. Therefore the total polarization of this substance must partly be due to orientation of a dipole. Also tetracyanoethylene and tetracyanoquinodimethane seem to have appreciable dipole moments although they both have abnormally high distortion polarization.