Oxidation effects on the hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) second-order nonlinear optical responses of homo- and hetero-helicenes have been investigated using the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approach and the Austin Model I semi-empirical Hamiltonian. Upon oxidation, this approach predicts a substantial increase of the HRS response, which, with the exception of tetrathia-[7]-helicene and pentathia-[9]-helicene, is accompanied by a decrease of the depolarization ratio. In the case of helicenes bearing thiophene units, the HRS increase is associated with the presence of a substantial axial contribution to the first hyperpolarizability, whereas the radial component is otherwise dominant. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Botek, E., Spassova, M., Champagne, B., Asselberghs, I., Persoons, A., & Clays, K. (2005). Hyper-Rayleigh scattering of neutral and charged helicenes. Chemical Physics Letters, 412(4-6), 274-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2005.06.121 (Original work published 2005)