Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2001, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (10): 1728.

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The Roles of the Non-centrosymmetrically Substituted Groups in Several Aromatic NLO Materials

ZHAO Bo1, ZHOU Zhi-Hua1, TAN Xi-Lin2   

  1. 1. College of Chemistry and Environment Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Jiangsu Province for Optic and Electric Techniques, Nanjing 210097, China
  • Received:2000-09-15 Online:2001-10-24 Published:2001-10-24

Abstract: The molecular second-order nonlinear optical(NLO) polarizabilities β-of several aromatic NLOmaterials were calculated and the roles of the non-centrosymmetrically substituted groups in these compounds were studied. The results showed that the strong donor-acceptor(such as nitro and amino group etc.) para-disubstituted compounds usually crystallized in a centrosymmetric crystal structure and therefore had no SHG(second harmonic generation) effect. However, they would show very strong SHGeffect when the groups CH3, Cl, Br or NHCOCH3 were non-centrosymmetrically attached to these molecules. The intromolecular charge transfer and the molecular polarizabilities were hardly dependent on these substituents. But they played an important role in forming the non-centrosymmetric crystal structures and therefore the second harmonic generation response. So such non-centrosymmetrically substituted groups were important in designing effective organic second-order NLOmaterials.

Key words: Substituent, Molecular secondorder nonlinear optical polarizability, Crystal structure

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