CONFORMATION OF MONO-CARBOXYLIC AND DICARBOXYLIC-ACIDS ADSORBED ON SILVER SURFACES
CONFORMATION OF MONO-CARBOXYLIC AND DICARBOXYLIC-ACIDS ADSORBED ON SILVER SURFACES
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00310a014
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
SUH, JS
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作者:
MOSKOVITS, M;SUH, JS
The geometryand conformationof a number of the ions of monocarboxylic and dicarboxylic acids adsorbed on silver colloid surfaces were deduced from their SERSspectra. Monocarboxylic acids adopt an all-trans conformation on the silver sol surface, as evidenced by the absence of gauche markers in the skeletal CC stretching region of the spectrum, the presence of the low-frequency “accordion" mode in the CCC deformation region, and the alternationof the intensityof the asymmetric CH3 stretching vibration with the number of carbons in the alkyl chain. We speculate that this conformation is chosen in order to avoid, as much as possible, hydrophobe interactions between the alkyl chainand the aqueous ambient. The carboxylate group is responsible for the surface bond, probably chelatingto silver surface sites. The dicarboxylate acids bind through both carboxylate groups. The polymethylene chain is therefore arranged in such a way as best to accomplish this. As a result, trans “markers” are absent suggesting the presence of a large number of gauche or nearly gauche bonds. Succinate ion is shown to have a cis conformation so as to “stand” on the surface on its two carboxylate groups.Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy has been used to investigate a large number of molecules adsorbed on specially prepared metal surfaces1 among which silver is the most prominent. We have recently shown that molecular orientation upon the metal surface may be deduced from the SERS spectra by applying simple arguments regarding the relative intensities of SERS bands or in some cases the absence of bands. 2, 3 Creighton4 has used similar arguments to deduce the orientationof pyridine on the surface of Ag, Au, and Cu sol particles. In this paper we investigate the surface geometry and conformationof a number of the ions of