Theoretical study of the static first hyperpolarizability of azo-enaminone compounds

Abstract

In this work the static electric properties of azo-enaminones, with special emphasis to the vector component of the first hyperpolarizability βvec, are determined at the Hartree–Fock (HF) level with the electron correlation (EC) effects included through the second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2). The ab initio results, in accordance with previous semiempirical calculations, show that appropriate choices of substituents to be incorporated to the molecular structure can have a marked influence on the first hyperpolarizability. An initial study about the changes on the βvec values of these compounds, as a result of the incorporation of different donor groups, indicates that this property increases as function of the donor group strength tending to a saturated value. A comparison between our HF and MP2 results, for all compounds studied here, show that the βvec values are strongly affected by the effects of the electron correlation correction.