Semiquantitative Study of the EDC/NHS Activation of Acid Terminal Groups at Modified Porous Silicon Surfaces
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Abstract
Infrared spectroscopy is used to investigate the transformation of carboxyl-terminated alkyl chains immobilized on a surface into succinimidyl ester-terminated chains by reaction with an aqueous solution of N-ethyl-N'-(3-(dimethylamino)propyl)carbodiimide (EDC) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS). The acid chains are covalently grafted at the surface of hydrogenated porous silicon whose large specific surface area allows for assessing the activation yield in a semiquantitative way by infrared (IR) spectroscopy and detecting trace amounts of surface products and/or reaction products of small IR cross section. In this way, we rationalize the different reaction paths and optimize the reaction conditions to obtain as pure as possible succinimidyl ester-terminated surfaces. A diagram mapping the surface composition after activation was constructed by systematically varying the solution composition. Results are accounted for by NHS surface adsorption and a kinetic competition between the various EDC-induced surface reactions.
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