Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (06): 1271.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0251-0790.2012.06.025

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Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Study of Serial Short Chain Fatty Acids Liquid/Air Interfaces

HUANG Zhi1,2, GUO Yuan1   

  1. 1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2011-11-14 Online:2012-06-10 Published:2012-06-10

Abstract: The air/pure liquid interfaces of five kinds of short chain fatty acids of acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, pentanoic acid and hexanoic acid were addressed by sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy(SFG-VS) under three polarization combinations(ssp, ppp, sps). The vibrational modes of spectra peaks were assigned according to the polarization selection rules. Furthermore, the orientation of the fatty acid molecules at air/liquid interface was calculated. It was found that the orientation angles increase slightly with the increase of the length of carbon chain and the possible mechanism was proposed.

Key words: Short chain fatty acid, Molecular orientational angle, Air/liquid interface, Sum frequency gene-ration vibrational spectroscopy(SFG-VS)

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