TY - JOUR
T1 - Ab initio static polarizability and first hyperpolarizability of model polymethineimine chains. II. Effects of conformation and of substitution by donor/acceptor end groups
AU - Jacquemin, Denis
AU - Champagne, Benoît
AU - Kirtman, Bernard
PY - 1997/10/1
Y1 - 1997/10/1
N2 - An ab initio coupled Hartree-Fock study has been carried out on polymethineimine (PMI) oligomers with an increasing number of unit cells (up to N = 20) to determine the effect of conformational differences, and of end-capping by a strong donor-acceptor pair, on the static electronic longitudinal polarizability (αL) and first hyperpolarizability (βL). For the unsubstituted polymer the differences in βL per unit cell among the four conformations examined - trans-transoïd (TT), cis-transoïd (CT), trans-cisoïd (TC) and helical (HEL) - are large, βL/N is positive for the CT polymer, in contrast with the other conformers and with μL/N, which is negative in all cases. The TC polymer has the largest |βL|/N despite having a relatively small αL/N. Substitution of a strong acceptor (NO2) at the carbon end of an oligomer and a strong donor (NH2) at the nitrogen end results in a large increase of βL/N for small/medium N. In the case of the TT and, particularly, the CT conformer this leads to a maximum in |βL|/N vs N at N=4-6, which is substantially greater in magnitude than the one at N=∞. The latter is unaffected by substitution. We compare the [βL(N)/N]max obtained at intermediate N for substituted PMI chains with those calculated for linear polyenes and other π-conjugated oligomers. The shape of all the βL/N vs N curves obtained is fit to a function which yields parameters characterizing the delocalization along the backbone, the unit cell asymmetry, and the asymmetry of the chain ends.
AB - An ab initio coupled Hartree-Fock study has been carried out on polymethineimine (PMI) oligomers with an increasing number of unit cells (up to N = 20) to determine the effect of conformational differences, and of end-capping by a strong donor-acceptor pair, on the static electronic longitudinal polarizability (αL) and first hyperpolarizability (βL). For the unsubstituted polymer the differences in βL per unit cell among the four conformations examined - trans-transoïd (TT), cis-transoïd (CT), trans-cisoïd (TC) and helical (HEL) - are large, βL/N is positive for the CT polymer, in contrast with the other conformers and with μL/N, which is negative in all cases. The TC polymer has the largest |βL|/N despite having a relatively small αL/N. Substitution of a strong acceptor (NO2) at the carbon end of an oligomer and a strong donor (NH2) at the nitrogen end results in a large increase of βL/N for small/medium N. In the case of the TT and, particularly, the CT conformer this leads to a maximum in |βL|/N vs N at N=4-6, which is substantially greater in magnitude than the one at N=∞. The latter is unaffected by substitution. We compare the [βL(N)/N]max obtained at intermediate N for substituted PMI chains with those calculated for linear polyenes and other π-conjugated oligomers. The shape of all the βL/N vs N curves obtained is fit to a function which yields parameters characterizing the delocalization along the backbone, the unit cell asymmetry, and the asymmetry of the chain ends.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000744906
SN - 0021-9606
VL - 107
SP - 5076
EP - 5087
JO - The Journal of chemical physics
JF - The Journal of chemical physics
IS - 13
ER -