Perfect layered arrangement of ion-paired chromophores in a crystalline non-linear optical organic salt: 2-amino-3-nitropyridinium chloride
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Vol. 7 (1) , 35-39
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a605836a
Abstract
2-Amino-3-nitropyridinium chloride is reported as a new crystalline non-linear optical organic salt, built around a two-dimensional hyperpolarisable cationic chromophore. Its crystal structure (space groupP2 1 ) reveals a quasi-perfect layered arrangement of the cations and the anions. Within each layer the chromophores are arranged in a herringbone structure and strong hydrogen bonds are present. The first hyperpolarisabilities of ion-paired chromophores calculated for 2-amino-3-nitropyridinium chloride as well as 2-amino-5-nitropyridinium chloride emphasize the favourable contribution of the inorganic anionic sublattice to the enhancement of the molecular β ijk and macroscopic χ (2) susceptibilities.Keywords
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