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Past exam of the chemistry course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 1 1 b ii Solution by
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The strong band is an acyl chloride carbonyl stretching vibration. Compared with an ester, donation from a chlorine lone pair into the carbonyl antibonding molecular orbital is relatively ineffective, while chlorine's inductive effect withdraws electron density. The resulting stronger effective carbonyl force constant places the absorption above an ordinary saturated ketone band. Bond polarity alone is not a universal quantitative frequency rule.
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