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The Raman and the infrared spectra of ethylene chlorhydrin have been remeasured with the result that the molecules take both the trans and the gauche forms in the gaseous and the liquid states, while they take only the gauche form in the solid state. By the measurement of the temperature dependence of the infrared absorption the energy difference between these two forms has been found as 0.95 kcal/mol.
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