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Density functional theory calculations of dynamic first hyperpolarizabilities for organic molecules in organic
Shih-I Lu1, Cheng-Chang Chiu, Ying-Fung Wang
1Department of Chemistry, Soochow University, No. 70, Lin-Shih Road, Taipei City 111, Taiwan. shih_i_lu@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Against experimental values obtained from solution-phase dc electric field induced second-harmonic generation measurements at a fundamental wavelength of 1910 nm, the performance of 20 exchange-correlation functionals in density functional theory in evaluation of solvent modulated dynamic first hyperpolarizabilities of 82 organic molecules in chloroform, 1,4-dioxane, and/or dichloromethane was evaluated. The used exchange-correlation functionals consisted of generalized gradient approximation (GGA), meta-GGA, global hybrids, and range-separated hybrids. The PCM-X/6-311+G(2d,p)//PCM-B3LYP/6-31G(2df,p) level of theory was employed. The calculated results showed functionals with the exact asymptote of the exchange potential gave satisfying linear correlation with R(2) of 0.95 between experimental data and theoretical values. With a linear correction, these functionals also provided a better accuracy with mean absolute error of 5 × 10(-30) esu than other functionals. The solvent effect and solvation scheme on the calculated property were also studied.
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