Sodium chloride

Molecule

IUPAC name: Sodium chloride
Secondary names: Halite, Common salt, Sodium chloric, Rock salt, Saline, NaCl
InChI: InChI=1S/ClH.Na/h1H;/q;+1/p-1
InChI key: FAPWRFPIFSIZLT-UHFFFAOYSA-M
CAS number: 7647-14-5

	Atom	Name	Number
	$Na^+$	Sodium cation	1
	$Cl^-$	Chloride anion	1

Molecule symmetry

Cinfv

Case

diatomic

Vibrations number

1

Vibrations

Label	Mode	Bond	Symmetry	Degeneracy	Fundamental frequency	Observed frequency	Observed frequency	Harmonic frequency	Activity IR	Activity Raman	Strength	Comments
V1	stretching	$Na^+.Cl^-$	$\Sigma+$	no	361.0			364.7	active	active		for $^{23}Na^{35}Cl$

Comments

Data from NIST CCCBDB: https://cccbdb.nist.gov

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number
	$Na^+ \cdot Cl^-$	1