Supporting Information Specific Counter-Cation Effect on the Molecular Orientation of Thiocyanate Anions at the Aqueous Solution Interfaces
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Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. This journal is © the Owner Societies 2020 Supporting information Specific Counter-cation Effect on the Molecular Orientation of Thiocyanate Anions at the Aqueous Solution Interfaces Hongxing Hao1#, Qing Xie1#,†, Jingwen Ai1, Yuan Wang2, and Hongtao Bian1* 1. Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China 2. Institute of Science and Technology, University of Sanya, Sanya, Hainan, 572022, China # These authors contributed equally to the work. † Current address: Utah State University, 0300 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, USA. * To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected] (H.B) 1. SFG data and orientation analysis The theoretical data analysis of SFG spectra generated from the air/liquid interface has been described elsewhere.1 The SFG intensity I() can be expressed as a function of the second order susceptibility 2-4 3 2 2 8 sec (2) 2 I() 3 | eff | I(1)I(2 ) (1) c0 n1()n1(1)n1(2 ) Where , , and are the frequencies of the SF signal, visible, and IR laser beam, respectively. n1(i ) is the refractive index of bulk medium i at the frequency of i , I() is the intensity of the SFG signal or the input laser beams, c0 is the speed of light in vacuum, is the incident or reflection angle of the ith light beams from the surface normal, which is defined as the z axis in the laboratory coordinates system (x, y, z), and (2) is the effective macroscopic second-order susceptibility. (2) depends on eff eff the experimental geometry and polarizations. In the polarization dependent SFG experiments, there are three typical polarization combinations commonly used in the (2) SFG studies, namely, ssp, sps and ppp. eff under these three polarization combinations can be expressed as 2, 4 (2) eff ,ssp Lyy ()Lyy (1)Lzz (2 )sin 2 yyz (2) eff ,sps Lyy ()Lzz (1)Lyy (2 )sin 1 yzy (2) eff , ppp Lzz ()Lxx (1)Lxx (2 )sin cos 1 cos 2 zxx (2) Lxx ()Lxx (1)Lzz (2 )cos cos 1 sin 2 xxz Lxx ()Lzz (1)Lxx (2 )cos sin 1 cos 2 xzx Lzz ()Lzz (1)Lzz (2 )sin sin 1 sin 2 zzz where Lii () is the tensorial Fresnel factor as shown below: 2n1()cos Lxx () n1()cos n2 ()cos 2n1()cos Lyy () (3) n1()cos n2 ()cos 2 2n2 ()cos n1() Lzz () ' n1()cos n2 ()cos n () in which is the refracted angle and n' () is the effective refractive index of the interfacial layer. The macroscopic susceptibility tensors (2) are related to the ijk microscopic hyperpolarizability tensor elements (2) in the molecular coordinates i'j'k' system through the ensemble average. (2) (2) N R ' R ' R ' (4) ijk s ii jj kk ' ' ' i jk i' j'k' Here Ns is the number density of interfacial molecules. When the IR frequency is resonance to the molecular vibrational transitions, the second order molecular polarizability is described as the following (2) (2) (2) q NR (5) q IR q iq (2) (2) where NR is the non-resonant contribution, q ,q , q are the strength factor tensor, resonant frequency and damping constant of the qth vibrational mode, - respectively. For SCN anion which can be treated as Cv symmetry, the nonzero second-order hyperpolarizabilities are aac bbc , ccc . Thus the macroscopic susceptibility tensors under three different polarizations can be given in the following 1 N (1 r) cos (1 r) cos3 xxz yyz 2 s ccc 1 N (1 r) cos cos3 (6) xzx zxx yzy zyy 2 s ccc N r cos (1 r) cos3 zzz s ccc where r is the ratio of aac / ccc , which can be determined through the polarized Raman measurements. is the tilt angle of SCN- transition dipole (CN stretching) from the surface normal. By using the SFG intensity ratio method, the orientational parameter D= cos / cos3 can be determined. With orientational parameter D known, the relative number of SCN- anions adsorbed at the air/water interface can be calculated from the following expression 2 2 2 I() | eff | Ns | r( ) | (7) r( ) is the orientational function related to the orientational parameter D.5, 6 The SFG intensity is proportional to the product of the square of the surface density and the orientational function, and their contributions can be easily separated through the polarization SFG analysis. 2. Experimental results 0.4 0.8 0.7 ) (A) (B) . ) . u 0.3 0.6 . Pure water u . a ( a ssp 0.5 ( e Pure Water sps y c t FTIR spectra i 0.4 ppp n 0.2 s a n b 0.3 r e t o n s I 0.2 b 0.1 G A F 0.1 S 0.0 0.0 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600 1900 1950 2000 2050 2100 2150 2200 Frequency (cm-1) Frequency (cm-1) Figure S1. (A) FTIR spectra of pure water solution. The peak positioned at 1650 cm-1 is assigned to the OH bending stretch of water molecule. While the broad peak with the central frequency at 2150 cm-1 is originated from the combination band of water molecule. (B) SFG spectra generated from air/neat water interface under three different polarization combinations. 5000 3 7 mol/kg 1 mol/kg 3 3 mol/kg 25x10 12x10 4000 10 20 y y y t t t i 3000 i 8 i s s s 15 n n n e e e t 2000 t 6 t n n n I I I 10 4 1000 2 5 0 0 0 1800 2000 2200 2400 1800 2000 2200 2400 1800 2000 2200 2400 Raman shift/cm-1 Raman shift/cm-1 Raman shift/cm-1 3 35x10 3 40x10 30 10 mol/kg 15 mol/kg 25 30 y y t t i i s 20 s n n e e 20 t 15 t n n I 10 I 10 5 0 0 1800 2000 2200 2400 1800 2000 2200 2400 -1 Raman shift/cm Raman shift/cm-1 Figure S2. Polarized Raman spectra of NaSCN aqueous solution at different bulk - concentrations. The value of depolarization ratio of SCN anion is determined to be 0.325±0.002. Therefore, r ( aac / ccc ) can be calculated based on the equation of 3 ,7 which is determined to be 0.007±0.002 by solving the 4 5[(1 2r) / (1 r)]2 equation. 0.05 3.0 ) o ) o . 0.0016 0 sps i 2.5 t sps/ppp u o (A) u 0.04 (B) ppp (C) . a 10 a a o ( ( o R o 0 2.0 20 o 0 y y 0.0012 y t t o 0.03 10 t o i i 30 o i 10 s s o 20 s 1.5 o n n 40 o n 20 e e 0.0008 30 e t t 0.02 t o o 1.0 30 n n n I I I 40 o 40 G G 0.0004 0.01 G 0.5 F F F S S S 0.0 0.0000 0.00 -0.5 0 20 40 60 80 0 20 40 60 80 0 20 40 60 80 Orientational angle (degree) Orientation angle (degree) Orientation angle (degree) Figure S3. Simulated SFG intensities for (A) sps (B) ppp polarizations and (C) their ratio (Isps/Ippp) for the air/1.0 mol/kg NaSCN aqueous solution interface with respect to the molecular orientation of SCN- anion. The distribution width is considered with a Gaussian function. ) . 0.3 u . 1 mol/kg a ( 6 mol/kg y 15 mol/kg t i 0.2 s n e t n I 0.1 G F S 0.0 2800 2850 2900 2950 3000 IR Frequency (cm-1) Figure S4. The ssp SFG spectra of the surface of the NaSCN aqueous solutions at three different concentrations in the 2800 to 3000 cm-1 region. The SFG spectra for 6 mol/kg and 15 mol/kg NaSCN aqueous solutions have been offset for clarification. 3.0 5.5 ) ) . sps . 2.5 5.0 ppp u (A) u (B) . a a ( ( 2.0 4.5 y y t t i 4.0 i s s 1.5 n n e e t 3.5 t 1.0 n n I I 3.0 G G 0.5 F 2.5 F S S 2.0 0.0 1.5 -0.5 1950 2000 2050 2100 2150 2200 1950 2000 2050 2100 2150 2200 Frequency (cm-1) Frequency (cm-1) Figure S5. SFG spectra of the anti-symmetric stretch of the SCN- anions adsorbed at the air/NaSCN aqueous solution interface under (A) sps and (B) ppp polarizations at the concentration of 15.0 mol/kg. The solid lines with red color are the fitting results. Fitting parameters are listed in Table S1. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Figure S6. Calculated structure of NaSCN and complex structure between NaSCN and water molecules in gas phase using DFT method. 3.0 sps ppp ) ) . 1.5 0.5 mol/kg . 2.5 0.5 mol/kg u u . (A) . (B) 1.0 1.0 a a ( 2.0 ( 2.0 2.0 y y 3.0 3.0 t t i 1.0 5.0 i 5.0 s s 1.5 n n 6.0 6.0 e e 7.0 t 7.0 t n 8.0 n 1.0 8.0 I I 0.5 G G F F 0.5 S S 0.0 0.0 1950 2000 2050 2100 2150 2200 1950 2000 2050 2100 2150 2200 Frequency (cm-1) Frequency (cm-1) Figure S7.