We performed Raman and infrared (IR) spectroscopy measurements of hydrogen at 295 K up to 280 GPa at an IR synchrotron facility of SSRF. To reach the highest pressure, hydrogen was loaded into toroidal diamond anvils with 40 m central culet. The intermolecular coupling has been determined by concomitant measurements of the IR and Raman vibron modes. In phase IV, we find that the intermolecular coupling is much stronger in the graphene (G) like layer of elongated molecules compared to the Br2 like layer of shortened molecules and it increases with pressure much faster in the G layer compared to the Br2 layer. These heterogeneous lattice dynamical properties are unique features of highly fluxional hydrogen phase IV.Dense hydrogen demonstrates a number of fascinating phenomena 1 , and theory predicts even more spectacular behaviors at higher pressures, which remained to be explored 2, 3 . Of particular interest is a behavior related to an increase of the kinetic energy and thus quantum atomic motion, which may lead to a change in the character of the chemical bonds 4 or even to a decline in the melting temperature, which can ultimately result in a liquid ground state 5, 6 . Hydrogen with the lightest atoms manifests the most suitable system to explore such effects. However, reaching the appropriate states requires very high pressures (⁓1 TPa), which remains technically challenging.Static high-pressure techniques have been recently progressing aggressively stimulated by scientific goals of better understanding materials under extremes (e.g. in planetary interiors), competition with dynamic compression techniques, and new advances in first principles calculations. High-pressure molecular hydrogen H2 is expected to transform to a metallic monatomic state at high pressures 7, 8 , but the route remained unclear. Until 2012, only three molecular phases of H2 have been widely recognized: plastic (fully orientationally disordered) hcp phase I and orientationally ordered phases II at low temperature and III at low temperature and high pressure. While phase II, possessing quantum ordering features 9, 10 , is unusual for