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The electronic structures and the one- and two-photon absorption (TPA) properties of two series of the olefin-linked paracyclophane (pCp) oligomers have been studied using AM1 and ZINDO-SOS methods. The relationship between the TPA cross sections and the molecular chain length is obtained. The maximum TPA cross section increases in proportion to Nα (N denotes the number of repeat units) and the values of α depend on different molecular structures. The olefin-linked pCp oligomers, which have good transparency and large TPA cross sections, are promising candidates for TPA materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The absorption and emission spectra for a series of substituted 1,3-diphenyl-5-pyrene-2-yl-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazole (DPPyP) molecules are computed by TDDFT methods. The solvent effect is modeled using the self-consistent reaction field (SCRF) method with Tomasi's polarized continuum model (PCM). The ground-state geometries were optimized by the Hartree–Fock method with the 6-31G basis set (and also with 3-21G* for molecule A) (HF/6-31G), and the lowest singlet excited-state geometries were optimized at the ab initio CIS level with the 6-31G basis set (CIS/6-31G). The calculated results indicate that the TDDFT method can reproduce the experimental values. We consider the effects of different basis sets on the optimization of the ground-state geometries. Specially, some insights on the differences observed for these compounds in changing the substituted donors (H, CH3, and NH2) and acceptor group (CN) are given; the results indicate that introduction of the donor groups will lead emission to be red-shifted, while introduction of the acceptor will induce the emission to be blue-shifted, which provides useful information for modulating light-emitting material colors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The one-photon and two-photon absorption properties of donor–acceptor substituted dehydrobenzo[18]annulenes were determined by using density functional theory and ZINDO methods. The macrocycle containing C2v symmetry exhibited the largest TPA cross-section value of 3376 × 10–50 cm4 s/photon. The calculated results indicate that the TPA response in the whole molecule comes from the contribution of that in the every side in the trigon. It is notable that the magnitudes of the transition dipole moment from the virtual intermediate state to the TPA final state and the dipole moment difference between the ground state and the virtual intermediate state play important roles in increasing the TPA cross-section value. This series of molecules can circumvent the trade-off between efficiency and transparency, and they provide a promising direction for the further development of novel two-dimensional molecules with such properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The one-photon absorption (OPA) properties of tetrabenzoporphyrins (TBPs) and phthalocyanines (Pcs) were studied using the semiempirical ZINDO method and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), respectively. The compared results confirmed that the semiempirical ZINDO method was reasonably reliable when calculating the OPA of tetrabenzoporphyrins and phthalocyanines. On the basis of the OPA properties obtained from the ZINDO method, two-photon absorption (TPA) properties of two series of molecules were investigated, using ZINDO and sum-over-states (SOS) methods. The results showed that the TPA cross-sections of all molecules were in the range of 220.6 × 10–50 – 345.9 × 10–50 cm4·s·photon–1, which were in the same order of magnitude as the values reported in the literature. The relatively larger δ(ω) value for Pcs with respect to that for corresponding TBPs originates from larger intramolecular charge transfer, which can be characterized by the difference of dipole moment between S0 and S1 and the transition dipole moment between S1 and S5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]