The polarized Raman and IR spectra of m-nitrophenol (mNPh) crystals in two modifications and of mNPh and its deuterated analogue powders in a KBr pellet, wjol mull and CCI, solution have been measured in the region 2OO400 cm-'. The results are discussed and compared with earlier published data for a-resorunol, m-nitroaniline and maminophenol (mAPh). For the last compound new results, i.e. the IR spectra of the deuterated analogue, are presented, and reinterpretation of some previous assignments is proposed. The assignments of the bands in the mNPh spectra and the re-examination of the mAPb spectra were faditated by ordering the spectra of the four compounds into two classes exhibiting common features.It bas been found that tbe differences between the spectra of two phases of the mNPh crystal are small and reflect tbe difFereMles in interactions between the chains of molecules linked by hydrogen bonds. These interactions perturb particularly the NOz group vibrations which cannot be treated using the oriented gas model. On tbe basis of INDO/CI calculatioas of electronic absorption spectra vibroaic couplings in the IR and Raman spectra of the mNPh crystals have been proposed to account for many intensity enhancements.