. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 2.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Oct 12;133(43):17414–17419. doi: 10.1021/ja2069592

Table 1.

Observed wavenumbers for the OH and OD stretch modes of phenol dissolved in different aromatic solvents. The relative shift is relative to the peak of the phenol/benzene complex

solvent	OH frequency (cm⁻¹)	Linewidth (cm⁻¹)	rel. shift (cm⁻¹)
mesitylene	3534.3	40.5	−21.6
p-xylene	3542.9	33.2	−13.0
toluene	3549.6	36.3	−6.3
benzene	3555.9	37.6	0.0
chlorobenzene	3575.8	34.6	19.9
o-dichlorobenzene	3583.4	36.0	27.5
m-dichlorobenzene	3586.1	39.6	30.2

solvent	OD frequency (cm⁻¹)	Linewidth (cm⁻¹)	rel. shift (cm⁻¹)
mesitylene	2615.3	23.0	−14.4
p-xylene	2620.8	21.5	−8.9
toluene	2625.3	24.5	−4.4
benzene	2629.7	24.9	0.0
chlorobenzene	2643.5	29.9	13.8
o-dichlorobenzene	2648.5	27.3	18.8
m-dichlorobenzene	2651.0	28.6	21.3