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Chloroform is a polar molecule, and benzene is nonpolar. Shouldn't the chloroform-chloroform and benzene-benzene intermolecular forces be stronger than chloroform-benzene interactions (like dissolves like), which would result in a positive deviation from Raoult's law?

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This is because when these liquids are mixed, H-bonding type interactions are formed between hydrogen atom of chloroform (partial positive charge due to 3 Cl atoms) and 'pi' electron cloud of benzene ring. Thus, chloroform-benzene interactions are stronger than chloroform-chloroform and benzene-benzene interactions.

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