Vibrational spectra of 1-chloro-2-methylpropane and 1-chloro-2,2-dimethylpropane

Infrared and Raman spectra are obtained for 1-chloro-2-methylpropane and 1-chloro-2,2-dimethylpropane. The former compound exists as a mixture of P_C and P_H' conformers in the liquid and unannealed solid states, but only the P_C conformer is present in the crystalline solid. Vibrational assignments are made for both conformers of 1-chloro-2-methylpropane and for 1-chloro-2,2-dimethylpropane with the aid of normal coordinate calculations.