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Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Activity of a 2,4-Dinitrophenyl Phospholipid Hybrid Bilayer: Retrieving Orientational Parameters from a DFT Analysis of Experimental Data
Abstract
The vibrational nonlinear activity of films of 2,4-dinitrophenyl phospholipid (DNP) at the solid interface is measured by sum-frequency generation spectroscopy (SFG). Hybrid bilayers are formed by a LangmuirSchaefer approach in which the lipid layer is physisorbed on top of a self-assembled monolayer of dodecanethiol on Pt with the polar heads pointing out from the surface. The SFG response is investigated in two vibrational frequency domains, namely, 30502750 and 13751240 cm1. The first region probes the CH stretching modes of DNP films, and the latter explores the vibrational nonlinear activity of the 2,4-dinitroaniline moiety of the polar head of the lipid. Analysis of the CH stretching vibrations suggests substantial conformational order of the aliphatic chains with only a few gauche defects. To reliably assign the detected SFG signals to specific molecular vibrations, DFT calculations of the IR and Raman activities of molecular models are performed and compared to experimental solid-state spectra. This allows unambiguous assignment of the observed SFG vibrations to molecular modes localized on the 2,4-dinitroaniline moiety of the polar head of DNP. Then, SFG spectra of DNP in the 13751240 cm1 frequency range are simulated and compared with experimental ones, and thus the 1,4-axis of the 2,4-dinitrophenyl head is estimated to have tilt and rotation angles of 45 +/- 5 degrees and 0 +/- 30 degrees, respectively
Authors (7)
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Dan Lis
- University of Namur (UNamur) Laboratory of Lasers and Spectroscopies
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BENOîT Champagne
- Univ Namur UNamur Lab Theoret Chem LCT
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Christophe Humbert
- Université Paris-Sud,Laboratoire de Chimie Physique .
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Bertrand Busson
- Université Paris-Sud,Laboratoire de Chimie Physique .
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André Peremans
- Univ Namur UNamur Lab Lasers & Spectroscopies
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Francesca Cecchet
- University of Namur .
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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CHEMPHYSCHEM
no. 14,
edition 6,
pages 1227 - 1236,
ISSN: 1439-4235 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Bibliographic description:
- Lis D., Guthmuller J., Champagne B., Humbert C., Busson B., Peremans A., Cecchet F.: Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Activity of a 2,4-Dinitrophenyl Phospholipid Hybrid Bilayer: Retrieving Orientational Parameters from a DFT Analysis of Experimental Data// CHEMPHYSCHEM. -Vol. 14, iss. 6 (2013), s.1227-1236
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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