表面增强拉曼光谱(SEAS)具有极高的检测灵敏度,通过检测吸附分子的SEaS信号,可以获得表面吸附分子的结构以及可能发生的反应.在拉曼激发光源的辐射下,在碱性溶液中,银纳米粒子表面吸附的对氯硝基苯(PCNB)的SERS光谱与其固体的常规拉曼光谱相比,出现异常SERS谱.通过采用密度泛函理论(DFT)计算,对PCNB以及可能的偶联产物P,P’-二氯偶氮苯(DCAB)进行理论分析以及谱峰归属,发现这些异常峰来自其偶联产物DCAB的偶氮C-NNC基团的基频振动.
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) on silver nanoparticles is highly sensitive because of surface plasmon resonance. We have studied the structures and photoinduced chemical reactions of p-chloronitrobenzene (PCNB) molecules adsorbed on silver nanoparticles using a combination of SERS and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. When the PCNB molecules are adsorbed to the surface of silver nanoparticles in alkaline solution, the SERS spectra are very different from the normal Raman spectra of PCNB. Comparison of the DFT simulated Raman spectra of PCNB and p,p'- dichloroazobenzene (DCAB) indicates that the new peaks in the SERS spectrum of PCNB adsorbed on silver nanoparticles arise from the azo (C-N = N-C) group of DCAB.