Alcohol clusters, hydrogen bonds linear alcohols

In the solid state, however, the normal long-chain aliphatic alcohols take up almost exactly the same amount of water as in the liquid (15), and Trapeznikov (28) has suggested that specific hydrates are formed, as in the well known case of pentamethylethanol. Since the structure of solid alcohols certainly contains linear chains of hydrogen bonds, it seems unnecessary to evoke the specific association of small clusters of alcohol molecules with individual water molecules in the liquid state. 

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