The motivation for this question is that I want "toy examples" of how to prove/disprove the existence of multiplicative structures on examples of spectra. The class of examples I am thinking of is the Moore spectrum. For concreteness this is defined as a spectrum $X$ such that $\pi_n(X) = 0$ for $n <0$ $H_n(X)= 0$ for $n >0$ and $H_0(X) = A$ for some ring $R$. 

There are some curious phenomenon that happens:

- On one extreme, the Mod 2 Moore spectrum has no unital multiplication at all (by simple arguments in, say, http://mathoverflow.net/questions/87919/difficulties-with-the-mod-2-moore-spectrum)
- The Mod 3 Moore spectrum is not $A_{\infty}$ by Massey product arguments.
- The comment here on top of page 838: http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/schwede/rigid.pdf says that the mod $p$ Moore spectrum for $p \geq 5$ is homotopy associative by folklore (I would like to see an argument for this too!)
- On another extreme, since we can model the $\mathbb{Z}[q^{-1}]$ by localizing the sphere spectrum they are $E_{\infty}$.


In this light, my questions are:

- First and foremost, I would love to see a proof of the folklore result above about $p \geq 5$
- Is there a "general pattern" about multiplicative structures of the Moore spectrum as the ring/abelian group varies