Adsorption of organosulfur species at aqueous surfaces: molecular bonding and orientation
Teresa L Tarbuck1, Geraldine L Richmond
1Materials Science Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Abstract:
Four sulfur-containing compounds important to tropospheric chemistry have been examined at the vapor/H2O and vapor/D2O interfaces. These adsorbates, DMS, DMSO, DMSO2, and DMSO3, were studied by surface tension and vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy (VSFS). Each adsorbate is surface active and each orients with the hydrophobic methyl groups pointed out of the plane of the interface. Their influence on the interfacial water structure is adsorbate dependent. Strong and weak interactions with surface water are observed as well as reorientation of subsurface water molecules, resulting in an increase in interfacial thickness.
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