Citation: WU Yuan-Fei, LI Ming-Xue, ZHOU Jian-Zhang, WU De-Yin, TIAN Zhong-Qun. Density Functional Theoretical Study on SERS Chemical Enhancement Mechanism of 4-Mercaptopyridine Adsorbed on Silver[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, ;2017, 33(3): 530-538. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB201611211 shu

Density Functional Theoretical Study on SERS Chemical Enhancement Mechanism of 4-Mercaptopyridine Adsorbed on Silver

Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center for Energy Materials Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian Province, P. R. China

Received Date: 2 August 2016
Revised Date: 21 November 2016

Fund Project: The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21273182,21533006,21373172)

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is one of the most powerful techniques for obtaining fingerprint information on molecules adsorbed on coinage metal surfaces. Its detection sensitivity has reached the single-molecule level. On the basis of density functional theoretical (DFT) calculations and Raman scattering theory, we investigated the normal Raman spectra of two isomers and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of 4-mercaptopyridine (4MPY) adsorbed on silver. The results aided us in uncovering the relationships between normal Raman spectra and SERS spectra and adsorption configuration, tautomerization, protonation, and hydrogen bonding interactions as well as low-lying excited states. First, we compared the relative stability and normal Raman spectra of two isomers of 4MPY in the gas phase and aqueous solution with a solvent model similar to the solvation model of density (SMD). We then studied the Raman spectra of 4MPY interacting with silver clusters. Our results indicate that the Raman spectra were not dependent on the size of the silver clusters, owing to the formation of strong Ag-S bonds. We also considered two cases of Nend interaction in the 4MPY-Ag₅ complex. (1) For the hydrogen bond interaction between the nitrogen in 4MPY and water clusters or hydrated proton clusters, the theoretical results indicated that the vibrational frequencies of the pyridine ring increase. (2) For the interaction of the 4MPY-Ag₅ complex with a silver cluster Ag₄ through the lone-paired orbital in nitrogen of the pyridine ring, the theoretical results further revealed that the vibrational frequency shift is in good agreement with SERS peaks reported in the literature. Finally, our calculated results focused on the relationship between the Raman spectra and the charge transfer mechanism when the excitation photonic energy matches the transition energy of low-lying excited states in single-end and double-end adsorption configuration. Particularly for the case of the double-end adsorption configuration, the charge transfer states from the excitation from the silver cluster binding to the pyridine ring not only enhance the Raman signals of v₁₂, v₁, and v_8a modes, but also selectively enhance the Raman signal of the v_9a mode associated with the symmetric C-H in-plane bending vibration.
- Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy,
- Density functional theory,
- Charge transfer mechanism,
- 4-Mercaptopyridine,
- Silver
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