Langmuir monolayers of fatty aniline (C16-aniline) were investigated using sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy at various pH levels and NaCl concentrations. To analyze the sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectra of aniline, a multi-peak Lorentzian model, in accordance with the theory of SFG for a charged interface, was applied. First, SFG spectra of C16-aniline from pH 2 to 6 at a constant ionic strength of 10 mM (where the phase of the complex potential of the dc-induced signal was suppressed to a few degrees) were fitted with the above-mentioned method. The mean-field theory that considers the chemical equilibrium of the aniline headgroup was used to analyze the fitting results to find that the pKa of aniline is 4.4 ± 0.3. The protonation fraction of the aniline headgroup was estimated to be less than 5% at pH 6 and NaCl concentrations were up to 1M. The generalized Poisson-Boltzmann equation in the Gouy-Chapmann model effectively explained the observed SFG spectra in the OH region for fatty aniline at pH as low as 2, even for the systems without addition of any salt.
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