PMID- 34311165
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210906
LR  - 20210906
IS  - 1873-3557 (Electronic)
IS  - 1386-1425 (Linking)
VI  - 263
DP  - 2021 Dec 15
TI  - Spectroscopic evidence on the acetonitrile cleavage at mild condition.
PG  - 120191
LID - S1386-1425(21)00768-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120191 [doi]
AB  - Among the present numerous chemical libraries, acetonitrile is the one of famous 
      common organic solvents widely used in modern science and industry. Since it has 
      been known as very stable and inert solvent, there has been little doubt on its 
      catalytic decomposition to cyanide in mild condition. In this report, I provide 
      new evidence on the catalytic decomposition of acetonitrile at conventional gold 
      surfaces without any electrochemical treatment. Various surface enhanced Raman 
      spectroscopic (SERS) measurements on high-purity acetonitrile reveal that the 
      observed anomalous peak originates from the plasmonically cleaved cyanide group 
      on SERS-active gold surface, which is also supported by the results of time of 
      flight-secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). This work sheds light on the 
      plasmonic induced unprecedented reaction of the small chemical species that have 
      been known intact.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Shin, Dongha
AU  - Shin D
AD  - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, 
      Republic of Korea. Electronic address: dongha@inha.ac.kr.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210720
PL  - England
TA  - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
JT  - Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
JID - 9602533
RN  - 0 (Acetonitriles)
RN  - 0 (Cyanides)
RN  - 7440-57-5 (Gold)
SB  - IM
MH  - Acetonitriles
MH  - Catalysis
MH  - Cyanides
MH  - *Gold
MH  - *Spectrum Analysis, Raman
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Acetonitrile
OT  - Cleavage
OT  - Cyanide
OT  - Plasmonic catalyst
OT  - SERS
COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2021/07/27 06:00
MHDA- 2021/09/07 06:00
CRDT- 2021/07/26 20:16
PHST- 2021/03/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/07/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/07/13 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/07/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/09/07 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/07/26 20:16 [entrez]
AID - S1386-1425(21)00768-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120191 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2021 Dec 15;263:120191. doi: 
      10.1016/j.saa.2021.120191. Epub 2021 Jul 20.