Comment on: "FTIR and FTRaman spectra, assignments, ab initio HF and DFT analysis of 4-nitrotoluene" by S. Ramalingam et al., Spectrochemica Acta A 75 (2010) 1308-1314.

The title paper reports the ab initio calculated structure and vibrational spectra of 4-nitrotoluene. The calculated structure is wrong and the assignments are inconsistent with earlier work. We have recalculated the ab initio structure and reassigned the spectra in agreement with the standard text.