Insights into the Adsorption Nature of a Bioactive Anticancer Derivative of Benzenesulfonate on Silver Colloids at Various Concentrations: Experimental and DFT Investigations

Density functional theory was used in the present study to report and validate the 4-chloro-2-[(3,5-dichlorophenyl)carbamoyl]phenylbenzenesulfonate’s (CPB) IR, Raman and SERS spectra. The molecular systems, CPB and CPB-Ag6 were initially optimized. Frontier molecular orbital study demonstrates that in CPB-Ag6 complex, charge transfer (CT) interaction occurs between Ag and molecule. CT interaction in the examined systems was further verified by the MEP surface. The CPB is chemisorbed on Ag6 with affinity and a tilted orientation through lone pair electrons of atoms, according to Raman and SERS spectral analyses. Additionally, there was good correlation between the theoretical and observed results. The current study thus lays the path for designing robust SERS active substrates that will be useful for creating biosensors related to the CPB molecule.