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Molecular Orientation of Carboxylate Anions at the Water-Air Interface Studied with Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation.

ABSTRACT: The carboxylate anion group plays an important role in many (bio)chemical systems and polymeric materials. In this work, we study the orientation of carboxylate anions with various aliphatic and aromatic substituents at the water-air interface by probing the carboxylate stretch vibrations with heterodyne-detected vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy in different polarization configurations. We find that carboxylate groups with small aliphatic substituents show a large tilt angle with respect to the surface normal and that this angle decreases with increasing size of the substituent. We further use the information about the orientation of the carboxylate group to determine the hyperpolarizability components of this group.

SUBMITTER: Korotkevich AA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10226120 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Molecular Orientation of Carboxylate Anions at the Water-Air Interface Studied with Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation.

Korotkevich Alexander A AA Moll Carolyn J CJ Versluis Jan J Bakker Huib J HJ

The journal of physical chemistry. B 20230314 20

The carboxylate anion group plays an important role in many (bio)chemical systems and polymeric materials. In this work, we study the orientation of carboxylate anions with various aliphatic and aromatic substituents at the water-air interface by probing the carboxylate stretch vibrations with heterodyne-detected vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy in different polarization configurations. We find that carboxylate groups with small aliphatic substituents show a large tilt angle wit ...[more]

PMID: 36917504

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