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H. Kothe
Electron crystallography and organic materials with non-linear optical properties
Results of electron microscopic studies of crystal structures of a number of bis-benzylidene cyclohexanones are presented. It is shown that some of these compounds are efficient crystalline non-linear optically active (NLO) chromophores with second harmonic generation (SHG) properties. Appropriately functionalized chromophores of this type can be used as a polycondensation comonomer to produce partly crystalline main-chain NLO-active polymers. Electron diffraction crystal structural data, obtained for very small crystals, allowed us to get reasonable estimations of macroscopic crystal NLO-coefficients, relating quantum-chemically calculated molecular first hyperpolarizability components to …
Comparison of electron diffraction data from non-linear optically active organic DMABC crystals obtained at 100 and 300 kV
During the recent past, we have synthesized a new class of molecules with intramolecular two-dimensional charge transfer upon excitation. The present report presents such a molecule, 2,6-bis(4-dimethylamino-benzylidene)-cyclohexanone (DMABC), with an unusually high value of the second-order non-linear optical (NLO) coefficients. In order to optimize the macroscopic NLO properties of the compounds, it is necessary to relate their first hyperpolarizability tensors at a molecular level to those at a crystal bulk level. This requires a complete structure determination and refinement. However, the growth of sufficiently large single crystals, which are needed for structural analysis and refineme…
ChemInform Abstract: Electron Crystallography and Organic Materials with Non-Linear Optical Properties
Results of electron microscopic studies of crystal structures of a number of bis-benzylidene cyclohexanones are presented. It is shown that some of these compounds are efficient crystalline non-linear optically active (NLO) chromophores with second harmonic generation (SHG) properties. Appropriately functionalized chromophores of this type can be used as a polycondensation comonomer to produce partly crystalline main-chain NLO-active polymers. Electron diffraction crystal structural data, obtained for very small crystals, allowed us to get reasonable estimations of macroscopic crystal NLO-coefficients, relating quantum-chemically calculated molecular first hyperpolarizability components to …
Strategies for structure solution and refinement of small organic molecules from electron diffraction data and limitations of the simulation approach
In recent years, a series of non-linear optically active bis(benzylidene) ketones have been synthesized and investigated by electron crystallography. In most cases, structure refinement was possible by combining electron diffraction analysis and quantum-mechanical calculations with maximum-entropy methods. However, when the torsional angles between the phenyl rings and the C=C double bonds are strongly affected by the crystal field, this method fails because packing-energy calculations are not sufficiently sensitive. This problem can be solved by refining the approximate model with SHELXL, if the data set is sufficiently accurate and the model close to the correct structure. Here it is show…
How to Determine Reliable Intensities Using Film Methods?
The basis of a successful structure analysis is to obtain reliable intensities. In the field of electron crystallography intensity data can be collected on-line with a CCD-camera as well as off-line using image plates or film material. Whereas image plates are read out with a laser, film material is analysed via a densitometer or digitised using a CCD-camera or a scanner. Both, CCD-camera and scanner, uses CCDtechnology and we show that both systems can be used for intensity evaluation. In order to obtain reliable intensities from film media it is important to define and calibrate the experimental conditions, the digitization process and the evaluation of intensity data exactly. A high opti…
Structure determination to calculate nonlinear optical coefficients in a class of organic material
A class of molecules with intramolecular two-dimensional charge transfer upon excitation has been synthesized. It is expected that these materials should be prospective candidates for nonlinear optical (NLO) applications such as second harmonic (SHG) generation. In order to optimize the macroscopic NLO properties of the compounds, it is necessary to relate their first hyperpolarizability tensors at a molecular level to those at a crystal bulk level. This requires a complete structure determination and refinement. However, the growth of sufficiently large single crystals, which are needed for structural analysis and refinement by x-ray methods, is a time-consuming and sometimes impossible ta…
CCDC 153322: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Related Article: R.C.Yu, A.V.Yakimansky, H.Kothe, I.G.Voigt-Martin, D.Schollmeyer, J.Jansen, H.Zandbergen, A.V.Tenkovtsev|2000|Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.A:Found Crystallogr.|56|436|doi:10.1107/S0108767300006668