Abstract
The present study aims at probing the influence of different substituents of sodium carboxylate salts R-COO-:Na+ in aqueous solutions, with R = H, CH3, C2H5, CH2Cl, CF3, and C6H5. X-ray absorption spectroscopy was used in the oxygen K-edge region to highlight the effect of R on the energy position of the O1s-to-πCOO* resonance of the carboxylate ion. Ab initio static exchange and ΔSCF calculations are performed and confirm the experimental observations. We qualitatively discuss the results on the basis of the polar properties of these groups as well as on the basis of the πCOO* orbital energy in the ground states, the oxygen 1s orbital ionization energy, and the O1s-to-πCOO* resonance energy.
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