Abstract
The conformational changes of cyclohexyl acetylene (CHAL) on gold nanoparticle surfaces were investigated by means of concentration- and temperature-dependent surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Depending on concentrations and temperatures, the spectral changes of the acetylene ν(C≡C) stretching vibration on gold nanoparticles appeared to be more conspicuous than those of cyclohexyl ring modes. The density functional theory (DFT) calculation was performed at the level of B3LYP/6-31G++(d,p) to compare the energetic stability and vibrational frequencies of the various conformers of cyclohexanethiol (CHT) and CHAL. The DFT calculations were also carried out at the level of B3LYP/LACVP** on the CHAL molecule adsorbed on Au clusters at several sites to explain the spectral changes of the acetylene ν(C≡C) stretching vibration.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 193-198 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 10 Nov 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the STAR Program from KICOS, the PIMS Program from GIST, and the KISTI supercomputing center.
Keywords
- Conformational change
- Cyclohexyl acetylene
- DFT calculations
- Gold nanoparticles
- SERS