Synthesis, Fourier transform infrared and Raman spectra, assignments and analysis of N-(phenyl)- and N-(chloro substituted phenyl)-2,2-dichloroacetamides.

N-(phenyl)-2,2-dichloroacetamide (NPA) and N-(chloro substituted phenyl)-2,2-dichloroacetamides of the configuration XyC6H(5-y)-NHCO-CHCl2 (where, X = Cl and y = 1, 2 and 3) were synthesised and the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and Fourier transform Raman (FT-Raman) spectra of the compounds were recorded and analysed. The FTIR spectra of all the compounds were recorded in a Bruker IFS 66V spectrometer in the range of 4000-400 cm(-1) and the FT-Raman spectra were also recorded in the same instrument in the region 3500-100 cm(-1). The variation of an amide bond (-NHCO-) parameters with the substitution of the chlorine atom in the phenyl group and the mixing of different normal modes are discussed with the help of potential energy distribution (PED) calculated through normal co-ordinate analysis.