ORGANIZATION IN PURE AND ALTERNATE DEUTERATED CADMIUM ARACHIDATE MONOLAYERS ON SOLID SUBSTRATES AND AT THE AIR WATER INTERFACE STUDIED BY CONVENTIONAL AND DIFFERENTIAL FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIES/
D. Blaudez et al., ORGANIZATION IN PURE AND ALTERNATE DEUTERATED CADMIUM ARACHIDATE MONOLAYERS ON SOLID SUBSTRATES AND AT THE AIR WATER INTERFACE STUDIED BY CONVENTIONAL AND DIFFERENTIAL FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIES/, The Journal of chemical physics, 104(24), 1996, pp. 9983-9993
The molecular organization in monolayers of deuterated cadmium arachid
ate deposited on solid metallic and dielectric substrates or spread at
the air/water interface is investigated using different techniques of
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, For metals, the polarization
modulated reflectivity shows that the molecules have a high molecular
order and are oriented quasi perpendicularly with respect to the surf
ace. The in-plane organization is determined by complementary transmis
sion experiments on CaF2 plates. The CD2 bending vibration in mono- an
d multilayer Langmuir-Blodgett stacks reveals the hexagonal packing of
a single monolayer irrespective of the hydrophilic or hydrophobic cha
racter of the substrate. Probing the stack organization using selectiv
e monolayer deuteration in hydrogenated Langmuir-Blodgett films shows
that the first deposited monolayer of an odd-numbered stack keeps its
hexagonal structure while additional bilayers adopt an orthorhombic pa
cking induced by the strong polar head/head interactions, However a mo
nolayer may have an orthorhombic arrangement either if it is deposited
on an orthorhombic commensurable substrate or if it is at a low tempe
rature in which case intermolecular interactions are strengthened. Fin
ally, differential reflectivity allows a single monolayer spread at th
e air/water interface to be studied. It is shown that such a Langmuir
film is arranged in a two-dimensional hexagonal packing with its alkyl
chains oriented perpendicularly with respect to the surface and its C
OO- polar groups symmetrically anchored at the interface. (C) 1996 Ame
rican Institute of Physics.