Acetic acid, CH3CO2H, can form a dimer, (CH3CO2H)2, in the gas phase..
The dimer is held together by to hydrogen bonds with a total strength of 66.5 kJ per mole of dimer.
At 25 °C, the equilibrium constant for the dimerization is
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