Association of water and small monocarboxylic acids : matrix isolation FTIR spectrometry study
Infrared spectra of matrix isolated formic, acetic, propionic, and butyric acids mixed with water were obtained. Combining experimental data and theoretical calculations we were able to assign spectral bands arising due to formation of 1:1 complex between water and title acids. The structure of such complexes was elucidated from theoretical and spectral data for the first time. Alternating decreas