Depolarized Rayleigh scattering and molecular reorientation in benzene-chloroform mixtures

Abstract

The depolarized Rayleigh scattering from benzene-chloroform mixtures has been studied over a wide range of temperature and composition. The correlation time τ_LS is affected by both static and dynamic orientational pair correlation factors, which are prevalent in the mixtures. Benzene and chloroform molecules tend to align in a parallel or antiparallel orientation. No evidence of the formation of a long-lived complex was found.