Citation: Wumei Cao, Yang Lu, Yi-Fan Huang. An In-Situ Variable-Temperature Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Study of the Plasmon-Mediated Selective Oxidation of p-Aminothiophenol[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, ;2022, 41(10): 221007. doi: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2022-0134 shu

An In-Situ Variable-Temperature Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Study of the Plasmon-Mediated Selective Oxidation of p-Aminothiophenol

Wumei Cao ¹ ,
Yang Lu ¹ ,
Yi-Fan Huang ^1,,

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School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China

Corresponding author: Yi-Fan Huang, huangyf@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Received Date: 22 May 2022
Accepted Date: 11 June 2022
Available Online: 20 June 2022

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The roles of temperature change in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) hotspots are important for understanding the plasmon-mediated selective oxidation of p-aminothiophenol in a SERS measurement. Here, we demonstrate that the temperature change in hotspots seriously influences the conversion of p-aminothiophenol on Au by employing variable-temperature SERS measurements. The conversion steadily and irreversibly increased when the temperature increased from 100 to 360 K. But the conversion decreased above 360 K, because this conversion was exothermic. This temperature-dependence conversion suggests that the temperature change in hotspots originated from the photothermal effect should be coupled to the hot-electron effect in promoting the selective oxidation of p-aminothiophenol.
- surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy,
- p-aminothiophenol,
- temperature,
- plasmon-mediated chemical reaction
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