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Multimodal Nonlinear Hyperspectral Chemical Imaging Using Line-Scanning Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Microscopy
Published on: December 1, 2023
Interpreting vibrational sum-frequency spectra of sulfur dioxide at the air/water interface: a comprehensive
Marcel Baer1, Christopher J Mundy, Tsun-Mei Chang
1Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany.
Abstract:
We investigated the solvation and spectroscopic properties of SO(2) at the air/water interface using molecular simulation. Molecular interactions from both Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) and classical polarizable models were used to understand the properties of SO(2):(H(2)O)(x) complexes in the vicinity of the air/water interface. The KS-DFT was included to allow comparisons with vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy through the identification of surface SO(2):(H(2)O)(x) complexes. Using our simulation results, we were able to develop a much more detailed picture of the surface structure of SO(2) consistent with spectroscopic data obtained by Richmond and co-workers (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 16806). We also found many similarities and differences between the two interaction potentials, including a noticeable weakness of the classical potential model in reproducing the asymmetric hydrogen bonding of water with SO(2) due to its inability to account for SO(2) resonance structures.
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