The potential-dependent adsorption behavior of water and ionic liquid was probed by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy （SERS） at the Ag electrode surface in the ionic liquids containing water with different concentrations. The configuration of water at the ionic liquid/electrode interface and the relationship between the potential of zero charge （pzc） and the molar frac- tion of water were deduced through the changes in the vibrational frequency of OH stretching mode. A small Stark effect value was determined in the system with lower molar fraction of water. With the increase of the water concentration, the OH stretching vibrational frequency gradually shifted to the high wavenumber region, the pzc was also moved positively, and the Stark effect value of OH stretching vibrational mode increased. It reached about 76 cm-1 V-I in the 1 tool L-1 [BMIM]Br aqueous solution. These differences were mainly contributed by hydrogen bonding and the configuration of water in the ionic liquid solution. In the solution with lower water content, water molecules existed at the interface layer through hydrogen bond- ing with cations, while in the higher content solution, the intermolecular hydrogen bonding between water molecules was strengthened and the possibility of the direct interaction between the water molecule and electrode surface increased.
A new mononuclear copper（Ⅱ） complex [（bipy）2Cu（PhCOO）]ClO4·（benzil） （bipy = 2,2＇-bipyridine, benzil = 1,2-diphenyl-ethane-1,2-dione） was synthesized by direct electrochemical oxidation of Cu electrode in an acetonitrile solution with benzoic acid, 2,2＇-bipyridine and benzoin. As soon as the current flowed in the cell, benzoin was oxidized to benzil quickly. The crystal structure was determined by X-ray diffraction. It belongs to monoclinic system, space group P21/c with a = 14.860（2）, b = 20.784（3）, c = 11.9150（17）A, β = 101.401（3）°, V= 3607.3（9）/k^3, Z = 4, M, = 806.69, D, = 1.485 g/cm^3, F（000） = 1660, μ = 0.742 mm^-1, R = 0.0788 and wR = 0.1519 for 6254 observed reflections （I 〉 2σ（I）. The complex contains a mononuclear [（bipy）2Cu（PhCOO）] cation, a solvate benzil molecule and a ClO4^- anion which locates around the cation outside acting as the counter ion. The Cu（ll） ion is coordinated by two 2,2＇-bipyridines and one benzoato ligand to form a distorted square-pyramid.
