Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Soft-Landed Polyatomic Ions and Molecules
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Abstract
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was used to detect and characterize polyatomic cations and molecules that were electrosprayed into the gas phase and soft-landed in vacuum on plasma-treated silver substrates. Organic dyes such as crystal violet and Rhodamine B, the nucleobase cytosine, and nucleosides cytidine and 2'-deoxycytidine were immobilized by soft landing on plasma-treated metal surfaces at kinetic energies ranging from near thermal to 200 eV. While enhancing Raman scattering 10(5)-10(6)-fold, the metal surface effectively quenches the fluorescence that does not interfere with the Raman spectra. SERS spectra from submonolayer amounts of soft-landed compounds were sufficiently intense and reproducible to allow identification of Raman active vibrational modes for structure assignment. Soft-landed species appear to be microsolvated on the surface and bound via ion pairing or pi-complexation to the Ag atoms and ions in the surface oxide layer. Comparison of spectra from soft-landed and solution samples indicates that the molecules survive soft landing without significant chemical damage even when they strike the surface at hyperthermal collision energies.
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