“…The chemistry of carboxylic acids, and in particular the self-association of acetic acid, has also been the subject of numerous spectroscopic and theoretical investigations. − This interest is due in part to the relatively simple structure of acetic acid as well as to the presence of both O···H−O and relatively weaker O···H−C hydrogen bonding. Infrared spectroscopic measurements of acetic acid have been performed in argon and nitrogen matrixes, − ,,, gas phase, ,,, liquid phase, , and solution. − ,,,, These measurements have revealed the presence of several acetic acid species, such as cis- and trans-monomers, cyclic dimer, open (linear) dimers, ,, and higher aggregates. , The matrix isolation spectroscopy investigations have been particularly effective in varying the ratios of monomer to dimer (because of changes in pulse duration etc. ), and this has aided the assignment of infrared bands.…”