Second Harmonic Generation, Electrooptical Pockels Effect, and Static First-Order Hyperpolarizabilities of 2,2'-Bithiophene Conformers: An HF, MP2, and DFT Theoretical Investigation

摘要

The static and dynamic electronic (hyper)polarizabilities of the equilibrium conformations of 2,2'-bithiophene (anti-gauche and syn-gauche) were computed in the gas phase.The calculations were carried out using Hartree-Fock (HF), M?ller-Plesset secondorder perturbation theory (MP2), and density functional theory methods.The properties were evaluated for the second harmonic generation (SHG), and electrooptical Pockels effect (EOPE) nonlinear optical processes at the typical λ = 1064 nm of the Nd:YAG laser.The anti-gauche form characterized by the S-C_2-C_2'-S dihedral angle of 137° (MP2/6-311G**) is the global minimum on the potential energy surface, whereas the syn-gauche rotamer (S-C2-C2'-S = 48°, MP2/6-311G**) lies ca. 0.5 kcal/mol above the antigauche form.The structural properties of the gauche structures are rather similar to each other.TheMP2 electron correlation effects are dramatic for the first-order hyperpolarizabilitiesof the 2,2'-bithiophenes, decreasing theHF values by ca. a factor of three.When passing from the anti-gauche to the syn-gauche conformer, the static and frequency-dependent first-order hyperpolarizabilities increase by ca. a factor of two. Differently, the electronic polarizabilities and second-order hyperpolarizabilities of these rotamers are rather close to each other. The syn-gauche structure could be discriminated from the anti-gauche one through its much more intense SHG and EOPE signals.