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The Effects of Aromaticity and Reduced Bond Length Alternation on Linear and Third-Order Polarizabilities of Conjugated Organic Chromophores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1992

Christopher B. Gorman  and
Seth R. Marder
Christopher B. Gorman
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109 USA
Seth R. Marder
Affiliation:
Molecular Materials Resource Center, The Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125 USA
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Abstract

The geometries, the linear (α) and third-order (γ) polarizabilities of several bipolaron model compounds and cyanines are computed using the semi-empirical AM1 parameterization. The effects of aromaticity, charge localization and bond length alternation are considered.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 291: Symposium O – Materials Theory and Modeling , 1992 , 579
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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