INFRARED BANDS OF THE OH (OD) GROUP, HYDROGEN-BONDING, AND SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS OF TERT-BUTANOL AT 15-350-K

All four OH and OD H bands of tert-butanol from the liquid to a cold crystal have been studied. The displacement and narrowing (from 100 to 5 cm-1) of the isotope-isolated H bands in a crystalline matrix have been traced. The doublet nature of the bands of all the isolated vibrations and unusual complicated crystal splitting of all the H bands have been discovered. The nature of the complication and broadening of the H bonds, the relationship of the broadening to the displacement, the anharmonicity, and the interaction of the vibrations have been discussed.