The Bellamy relationship and the nature of the H-bond. Heteroassociates of alcohols

IR spectroscopic data are used to demonstrate that the donor ability of alcohols in H-bonds is determined by the molecular conformation and the universal interaction of subunits of the H-bond complex in homological series. The observed regularities can be employed for empirical separation of the contributions of electrostatic and covalent components in the formation energy of the H-complex.