Controlling the pH of aqueous succinic and maleic acids analyzed by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements were performed at the oxygen K-edge using aqueous solutions of succinic and maleic acids. Molecular dynamics simulations were employed to perform structural sampling and calculate the theoretical spectra using the framework of the density functional theory. When the pH was varied, the first peak in the XAS profiles exhibited different behaviors for
