Infrared and Raman spectra and normal vibrations of N,N-dimethylthioformamide and N,N-dimethylthioacetamide

The Raman and infrared spectra of N, N-dimethylthioformamide and N, N-dimethylthioacetamide were recorded and the vibrational frequencies are assigned. The normal co-ordinate treatment of these molecules has been carried out and the potential energy distributions calculated in order to clarify the nature of normal vibrations and investigate the magnitude of mixing up of various skeletal frequencies. The results in regard to the nature of the C-N and C=S stretching frequencies in these thioamides are compared with those of primary and secondary thioamides on the one hand and those of the corresponding ordinary tertiary amides on the other. It has been shown that the force constants of the general quadratic force field type are transferable in the series of molecules of tertiary amides and tertiary thioamides. The lowest frequency in the region of 150 cm.^?1 to 160 cm.^?1 has been recorded by the authors in the Raman spectra of the two tertiary thioamides under consideration. In the normal vibrational analysis of related molecules, the earlier workers only calculated this frequency, but did not record it.