Enhancement of second hyperpolarizabilities in open-shell singlet slipped-stack dimers composed of square planar nickel complexes involving o-semiquinonato type ligands

Hitoshi Fukui, Yasuteru Shigeta, Masayoshi Nakano, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Benoît Champagne, Edith Botek

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Abstract

Using the spin-unrestricted hybrid density functional theory method, we have investigated the intermolecular interaction effects on the longitudinal static second hyperpolarizability (γ) of open-shell singlet slipped-stack dimers composed of singlet diradical square planar nickel complexes involving o-semiquinonato type ligands, Ni(o-C6H4X2) 2 (where X = O, NH, S, Se, PH). For comparison, we have also examined the γ values of a closed-shell singlet slipped-stack dimer composed of closed-shell monomers Ni[o-C6H4S(NH2)] 2. It is found that for interplanar distance ranging between 3.0 and 5.0 Å the slipped-stack dimers with intermediate monomer diradical characters exhibit larger γ values per monomer (αdimer/2) than those with large monomer diradical characters or than the closed-shell dimer. These results extend the domain of validity of the relationship found between γ and the diradical character for individual molecules. It also turns out that the ratio R = (γdimer/2) /γmonomer increases upon decreasing the interplanar distance and that this increase is larger for intermediate diradical character than for the other cases. These phenomena have been analyzed by considering the γ density distributions of the dimers, demonstrating a significant field-induced third-order charge transfer between the monomers in the case of intermediate diradical character. The present results indicate that open-shell singlet slipped-stack aggregates composed of monomers with intermediate diradical characters constitute another mean for achieving highly efficient and tunable third-order nonlinear optical materials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1117-1124
Number of pages8
JournalThe Journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory
Volume115
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Feb 2011

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