Infrared spectra of phenyl acridine-9-carboxylates and their 10-methylated cationic derivatives were recorded and discussed. Experimental data were compared with theoretically predicted transitions at the DFT level of theory (using the B3LYP functional and 6-31G** basis set) for optimized geometries of molecules. Substitution influences the values of the wavenumbers of characteristic stretching and bending modes, ie those ...