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  • Title: Effects of atmospherically important solvated ions on organic acid adsorption at the surface of aqueous solutions.
    Author: Soule MC, Blower PG, Richmond GL.
    Journal: J Phys Chem B; 2007 Dec 13; 111(49):13703-13. PubMed ID: 18004833.
    Abstract:
    The effects of salts on the solubility of amphiphilic organic molecules are of importance to numerous atmospheric, environmental, and biological systems. A detailed picture of the influence of dissolved atmospheric salts, NaCl and Na(2)SO(4), on the adsorption of hexanoic acid at the vapor/water interface is developed using vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy and surface tension measurements as a function of time, organic concentration, and solution pH. We have found that for hexanoic acid adsorption at the vapor/water interface, a fast initial adsorption is followed by two considerably slower processes: a reorientation of the polar headgroup and a restructuring of the headgroup solvation shell. The addition of salts affects this restructuring by reducing the range of water--headgroup interactions immediately upon surface adsorption for ion containing solutions. Reorientation of the organic headgroup with time occurs at the surface of both salt-containing and salt-free solutions, but the most stable orientation differs with the added ions. The dissolved salts also enhance the interfacial concentration of hexanoic acid, consistent with the known salting-out behavior of Cl(-) and SO(4)(2-) anions.
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