Second-order polarizability of p-substituted cinnamic acids

✍ Scribed by Paresh Chandra Ray

• Book ID: 103032067
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 295 KB
• Volume: 248
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(95)01291-5

✦ Synopsis

First-order hyperpolarizabilities (/3) of a series of p-substituted cinnamic acids have been measured using the hyper-Rayleigh scattering technique and compared with those of p-substituted benzoic acids./3 in these acids increases as a function of the donor strength. It increases twice with the increase in the effective chain length. Semi-empirical calculations also support this enhancement. Solvents effects are dealt with at the ab initio level within the self-consistent reaction field approach.