Thionyl chloride (SOCl2) is a volatile inorganic compounds used extensively in industry. Its monitoring in gas phase is critical both for environmental and defense concerns. Previous high-resolution gas phase spectroscopic studies were focused on the microwave region (below 40GHz) and no rotationally-resolved study of the IR spectrum has been reported to date. We present in this article a rovibrational analysis of the two lowest frequency infrared active bending modes ν3 and ν6 of SOCl2. By means of synchrotron based Fourier-Transform far-infrared spectroscopy on the AILES beamline of the SOLEIL facility, the spectra of the symmetric ν3 (346cm−1) and asymmetric ν6 (283cm−1) fundamental bands have been rotationally resolved and analyzed.