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- Surface enhanced Raman scattering investigation of two novel piperazine carbodithioic acids adsorbed on Ag and ZnO nanoparticles
Surface enhanced Raman scattering investigation of two novel piperazine carbodithioic acids adsorbed on Ag and ZnO nanoparticles
in: RSC Advances (2015)
In this work piperazine-1-carbodithioic acid (PZCDT) and piperazine-1,4-dicarbodithioic acid (PZbCDT) were synthesized. These analytes PZCDT and PZbCDT have chair conformations, which is expected to give specific surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effects on individual bands. SERS, UV-Visible, TEM and DFT methods have proved that the dithiocarbamate moiety is a potential and suitable functional group for silver and ZnO nanoparticles (AgNPs and ZnONPs). The enhancement mechanism and enhancement factors in both SERS@AgNPs and SERS@ZnONPs are also discussed. Two new strong bands appear at 1630, 1286 1/cm with very large intensity in SERS@AgNPs, which signifies the conversion of the C–N bond of the dithiocarbamate moiety into C]N bonds. The SERS signatures that are observed are quite different in SERS@AgNPs and SERS@ZnONPs.
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra12928h