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Li B, Lin S, Gu FL. Intramolecular boron-locking strategy induced remarkable first hyperpolarizability: role of torsion angles between donor and acceptor units. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:11731-11737. [PMID: 38563632 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp06276g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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In conventional strategies to design donor-acceptor (D-A) organic molecules with a large electronic contribution to the first hyperpolarizability (β), the effects of the torsion angles (θ1 and θ2) between donor and acceptor moieties are barely considered. To address this issue, in this work, a promising and novel intramolecular boron-locking strategy combined with the different locking groups of different acceptors to control θ1 and θ2, has been proposed to make D-A organic molecules with large β values. Intriguingly, reducing the torsion angles will make the β value of the pyridiny thiophene triphenylamine unit (Py-Th-TPA) dramatically increase up to 94%, which is mainly ascribed to the smaller θ1 and θ2 leading to lower excited energy of the crucial excited state, and enhanced charge transfer (CT) from TPA to Py-Th moieties, and finally greatly increase the donor and acceptor part contributions to β. Correlation between the difference, |θ1 - θ2| and β, provides a large coefficient of determination, R2 = 0.78, which demonstrates that |θ1 - θ2| can be regarded as a potential descriptor for designing nonlinear optics (NLO) materials with D-A architecture. Clearly, we uncovered that θ1 and θ2 play a crucial role in the performance of NLO materials with D-A fragments.
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- Bo Li
- Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang 550018, P. R. China
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- Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-Park, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Environmental Theoretical Chemistry, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, P. R. China.
- SCNU Environmental Research Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution and Environmental Safety, School of Environment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, P. R. China
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Wang L, Liu YL, Wang MS. Effects of Atypical Hydrogen Bonds and π-π Interactions on Nonlinear Optical Properties: Dimers of Triangular Structures Based on Perylene, Naphthalene, and Pyromellitic Diimides. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:357-366. [PMID: 36524998 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials have become important materials in the field of high-speed optical devices due to the changes in light absorption and refraction caused by the photoelectric field. Compounds tend to exist as aggregates rather than single molecules, so intermolecular interactions are crucial to the nature of aggregates. Therefore, to study the effects of intermolecular interactions on nonlinear optical properties, we use a dimer simplified model and adopt the methods of controlling variables, which are the different intermolecular interactions resulting from the different stacking patterns of dimers based on the same monomer structures (2PMDI-1NDI and 2NDI-1PDI). It is found that compared with dimers involving π-π interactions, dimers involving C-H···O interactions have shorter intermolecular distances, larger intermolecular interaction energies, and smaller highest occupied molecular orbital-lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO-LUMO) energy gaps. Moreover, the C-H···O interactions are more conducive to the intermolecular charge transfers and more beneficial for increasing the nonlinear optical response values of aggregates with respect to π-π interactions. This work provides an important basis for the influence of intermolecular interactions on nonlinear optical properties.
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- Li Wang
- School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai264025, Shandong, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai264025, Shandong, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai264025, Shandong, China
- School of Integrated Circuits, Ludong University, Yantai264025, Shandong, China
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Ramos TN, Castet F, Champagne B. Second Harmonic Generation Responses of Ion Pairs Forming Dimeric Aggregates. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:3386-3397. [PMID: 33769813 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c00939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A sequential approach combining molecular dynamics and density functional theory calculations has been worked out to unravel the second harmonic generation responses of anion-cation (AC) pairs when they form dimeric aggregates, where the cation is a stilbazolium derivative and the anions range from small inorganic iodide to medium-size organic p-toluenesulfonate. These complexes showed a strong self-aggregation behavior in molecular dynamics simulations within high-concentration conditions and formed stable dimeric aggregates, (AC)2, which can adopt different structural shapes from stacked, Λ, to head-to-head configurations. These various structures are associated with different symmetries, which are shown to modulate the second- and third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) responses. By consolidating the NLO results of this work with those previously obtained for single AC pairs [ J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2020, 60, 4817-4826], we have been able to explain the experimentally observed variations of the electrical-field-induced second harmonic generation (EFISHG) responses of these complexes as a function of concentration [ ChemPhysChem 2010, 11, 495-507]. Moreover, results have highlighted that (i) the second-order contribution, μβ//, dominates the global EFISHG response; (ii) the μβ// responses of dimers are about half of those computed for the parent AC pairs, while the third-order contributions, γ//, are reduced by only 10%; (iii) these distinct trends are ascribed to the formation of dimers adopting mainly Λ and head-to-head shapes, increasing the centrosymmetric character, in comparison to the monomers, a situation in which the second-order response cancels out as well as influences the dipole moment on μβ//; (iv) the presence of a strong amino donor group in the cation enhances the μβ// response by 1 order of magnitude and γ// by about a factor of 2; and finally, (v) dimeric aggregation has similar effects on the hyper-Rayleigh scattering response, βHRS, as on μβ//, while it reduces the one-dimensional character of βHRS. This work constitutes a step forward for the modeling of the NLO responses of AC aggregates in solution.
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- Tárcius N Ramos
- University of Namur, Theoretical Chemistry Lab, Unit of Theoretical and Structural Physical Chemistry, Namur Institute of Structured Matter, rue de Bruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
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- Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, UMR 5255 CNRS, cours de la Libération 351, F-33405 Talence Cedex, France
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- University of Namur, Theoretical Chemistry Lab, Unit of Theoretical and Structural Physical Chemistry, Namur Institute of Structured Matter, rue de Bruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
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Medved' M, Iglesias-Reguant A, Reis H, Góra RW, Luis JM, Zaleśny R. Partitioning of interaction-induced nonlinear optical properties of molecular complexes. II. Halogen-bonded systems. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:4225-4234. [PMID: 32043097 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp06620a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Following our study on hydrogen-bonded (HB) complexes [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 19841], the physical nature of interaction-induced (non)linear optical properties of another important class of molecular complexes, namely halogen-bonded (XB) systems, was analyzed in this study. The excess electronic and nuclear relaxation (hyper)polarizabilities of nine representative XB complexes covering a wide range of halogen-bond strengths were computed. The partitioning of the excess properties into individual interaction-energy components (electrostatic, exchange, induction, dispersion) was performed by using the variational-perturbational energy decomposition scheme at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory and further supported by calculations with the SCS-MP2 method. In the case of the electronic interaction-induced properties, the physical composition of Δαel and Δγel was found to be very similar for the two types of bonding, despite the different nature of the binding. For Δβel, the XB complexes exhibit a more systematic interplay of interaction-energy contributions compared to the HB systems studied in the previous work. Our analysis revealed that the patterns of interaction-energy contributions to the interaction-induced nuclear-relaxation contributions to the linear polarizability and the first hyperpolarizability are very similar. For both properties the exchange repulsion term is canceled out by the electrostatic and delocalization terms. The physical composition of these contributions is analogous to those observed for the HB complexes.
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- Miroslav Medved'
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, SK-97400 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic. and Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis and Department of Chemistry, University of Girona, Campus de Montilivi, 17003 Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), Vassileos Constantinou Ave 48th, 116 35 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland.
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- Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis and Department of Chemistry, University of Girona, Campus de Montilivi, 17003 Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland.
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Besalú-Sala P, Sitkiewicz SP, Salvador P, Matito E, Luis JM. A new tuned range-separated density functional for the accurate calculation of second hyperpolarizabilities. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:11871-11880. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01291b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Among the nine functionals benchmarked, the most accurate γ are obtained by Tα-LC-BLYP, reducing about half the errors of LC-BLYP.
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- Pau Besalú-Sala
- Departament de Química and Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC)
- Universitat de Girona
- Girona
- Spain
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- Departament de Química and Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC)
- Universitat de Girona
- Girona
- Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
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- Departament de Química and Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC)
- Universitat de Girona
- Girona
- Spain
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
- 20018 Donostia
- Spain
- Ikerbasque
- Basque Foundation for Science
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- Departament de Química and Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC)
- Universitat de Girona
- Girona
- Spain
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Fakhardji W, Szabó P, El-Kader MSA, Haskopoulos A, Maroulis G, Gustafsson M. Collision-induced absorption in Ar-Kr gas mixtures: A molecular dynamics study with new potential and dipole data. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:144303. [PMID: 31615255 DOI: 10.1063/1.5099700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We have implemented a scheme for classical molecular dynamics simulations of collision-induced absorption. The program has been applied to a gas mixture of argon (Ar) and krypton (Kr). The simulations are compared with accurate quantum dynamical calculations. The comparisons of the absorption coefficients show that classical molecular dynamics is correct within 10% for photon wave numbers up to 220 cm-1 at a temperature of 200 K for this system. At higher temperatures, the agreement is even better. Molecular dynamics accounts for many-body interactions, which, for example, give rise to continuous dimer formation and destruction in the gas. In this way, the method has an advantage compared with bimolecular classical (trajectory) treatments. The calculations are carried out with a new empirical Ar-Kr pair potential. This has been obtained through extensive analysis of experimental thermophysical and transport properties. We also present a new high level ab initio Ar-Kr potential curve for comparison, as well as ab initio interaction-induced dipole curves computed with different methods. In addition, the Ar-Kr polarizability and hyperpolarizability are reported. A comparison of the computed absorption spectra with an experiment taken at 300 K shows satisfactory agreement although a difference in absolute magnitude of 10%-15% persists. This discrepancy we attribute mainly to experimental uncertainty.
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- Wissam Fakhardji
- Applied Physics, Division of Materials Science, Department of Engineering Science and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Applied Physics, Division of Materials Science, Department of Engineering Science and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza 12211, Egypt
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Patras GR-26500, Greece
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- Applied Physics, Division of Materials Science, Department of Engineering Science and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
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Głaz W, Haskopoulos A, Maroulis G, Bancewicz T. Modeling of interaction induced polarizability of H 2-H, numerical analysis. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:014111. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5100265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Waldemar Głaz
- Nonlinear Optics Division, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece
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- Nonlinear Optics Division, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
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Zaleśny R, Medved' M, Sitkiewicz SP, Matito E, Luis JM. Can Density Functional Theory Be Trusted for High-Order Electric Properties? The Case of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 15:3570-3579. [PMID: 31082215 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This work reports on an extensive assessment of the performance of a wide palette of density functional approximations in predicting the (high-order) electric properties of hydrogen-bonded complexes. To this end, we compute the electronic and vibrational contributions to the electric polarizability and the first and second hyperpolarizabilities, using the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory as reference. For all the studied properties, the average absolute errors below 20% can only be obtained using the CAM-B3LYP functional, while LC-BLYP and MN15 are shown to be only slightly less accurate (average absolute errors not exceeding 30%). Among Minnesota density functionals, i.e., M06, M06-2X, and MN15, we only recommend the latter one, which quite accurately predicts the electronic and vibrational (hyper)polarizabilities. We also analyze the optimal tuning of the range-separation parameter μ for the LC-BLYP functional, finding that this approach does not bring any systematic improvement in the predictions of electronic and vibrational (hyper)polarizabilities and the accuracy of computed properties is largely system-dependent. Finally, we report huge errors in predicting the vibrational second hyperpolarizability by ωB97X, M06, and M06-2X functionals. Based on the explicit evaluation of anharmonic terms contributing to the second hyperpolarizability, this failure is traced down to a poor determination of third- and fourth-order energy derivatives with respect to normal modes. These results reveal serious flaws of some density functional approximations and suggest caution in selecting the appropriate functional to calculate not only electronic and vibrational (hyper)polarizabilities but also other molecular properties that contain vibrational anharmonic contributions.
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- Robert Zaleśny
- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry , Wrocław University of Science and Technology , Wyb. Wyspiańskiego 27 , PL-50370 Wrocław , Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Matej Bel University , Tajovského 40 , 974 01 Banská Bystrica , Slovak Republic
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- Kimika Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), 20080 Donostia , Euskadi , Spain.,Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 4 , 20018 Donostia , Euskadi , Spain.,Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis and Department of Chemistry , University of Girona , Campus de Montilivi , 17003 Girona , Catalonia , Spain
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 4 , 20018 Donostia , Euskadi , Spain.,Ikerbasque Foundation for Science , 48011 Bilbao , Euskadi , Spain
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- Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis and Department of Chemistry , University of Girona , Campus de Montilivi , 17003 Girona , Catalonia , Spain
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Sitkiewicz SP, Rodríguez-Mayorga M, Luis JM, Matito E. Partition of optical properties into orbital contributions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:15380-15391. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp02662b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A new tool to analyze the response property through the partition of nonlinear optical properties in terms of orbital contributions (PNOC), valuable in the assessment of the electronic structure methods in the NLOPs computations, is presented.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sebastian P. Sitkiewicz
- Kimika Fakultatea
- Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)
- 20080 Donostia
- Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
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- Kimika Fakultatea
- Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)
- 20080 Donostia
- Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química
- Universitat de Girona
- C/Maria Aurèlia Capmany, 69
- 17003 Girona
- Spain
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
- Donostia
- Spain
- Ikerbasque Foundation for Science
- 48011 Bilbao
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