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The protonation state of small carboxylic acids at the water surface from photoelectron spectroscopy

In English

Författare

  • Niklas Ottosson
  • Erik Wernersson
  • Johan Soderstrom
  • Wandared Pokapanich
  • Susanna Kaufmann
  • Svante Svensson
  • Ingmar Persson
  • Gunnar Öhrwall
  • Olle Bjorneholm

Summary, in English

We report highly surface sensitive core-level photoelectron spectra of small carboxylic acids (formic, acetic and butyric acid) and their respective carboxylate conjugate base forms (formate, acetate and butyrate) in aqueous solution. The relative surface propensity of the carboxylic acids and carboxylates is obtained by monitoring their respective C1s signal intensities from a solution in which their bulk concentrations are equal. All the acids are found to be enriched at the surface relative to the corresponding carboxylates. By monitoring the PE signals of acetic acid and acetate as a function of total concentration, we find that the protonation of acetic acid is nearly complete in the interface layer. This is in agreement with literature surface tension data, from which it is inferred that the acids are enriched at the surface while (sodium) formate and acetate, but not butyrate, are depleted. For butyric acid, we conclude that the carboxylate form co-exists with the acid in the interface layer. The free energy cost of replacing an adsorbed butyric acid molecule with a butyrate ion at 1.0 M concentration is estimated to be > 5 kJ mol(-1). By comparing concentration dependent surface excess data with the evolution of the corresponding photoemission signals it is furthermore possible to draw conclusions about how the distribution of molecules that contribute to the excess is altered with bulk concentration.

Publiceringsår

2011

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

12261-12267

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volym

13

Issue

26

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Royal Society of Chemistry

Ämne

  • Natural Sciences
  • Physical Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1463-9084