Crystal orbital calculation of coupled-perturbed Hartree–Fock dynamic (hyper)polarizabilities for polydiacetylene and polybutatriene

Abstract

Crystal orbital coupled-perturbed Hartree–Fock static and dynamic (hyper)polarizabilities for polydiacetylene (PDA) and polybutatriene (PBT) are computed. Geometry effects have been investigated. The static CPHF/6-31G second-order hyperpolarizability of PBT is 67 times larger than that of PDA using the optimized geometries at the HF/6-31G level. However, this factor is reduced to 17 with the optimized geometries at the MP2/6-311G* level. One of the bond length alternations (BLA), the difference between the single and double bond lengths (S/D), of PDA is the most sensitive factor for the (hyper)polarizabilities. It has been shown from the calculations that a smaller S/D produces a larger polarizability and second-order hyperpolarizability of PDA. Unlike PDA, two different BLAs of PBT are competing to change the values of polarizability and second-order hyperpolarizability. The dynamic second-order hyperpolarizabilities have been checked with the general dispersion expression by fitting the results to a polynomial. Our theoretical results can also be compared with experiment and possible reasons for the discrepancies are addressed.