Abstract:
The geometric and electronic absorption spectra and second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of 5, 15-bis(pentafluorophenyl)-10-(2-aminophenyl) corrole (F
10Cor) and metal corrole (Mn, Cu, Ga) complexes have been investigated with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The second-order NLO coefficients (
β0) of corrole complexes were calculated on the CAM-B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ level using the sum-over-states (SOS) method. The calculated results showed that the static second-order NLO coefficients
β0 for F
10Cor and complexes followed an order of F
10CorCu(57.75×10
-30 esu), F
10Cor(37.92×10
-30 esu), F
10CorMn(27.10×10
-30 esu) and F
10CorGa(20.00×10
-30 esu), the second-order NLO responses of these compounds were mainly contributed by the
βy component. The second-order NLO responses of the F
10CorCu complex were derived from the
β-HOMO-1 to
β-LUMO transition, exhibiting intraligand charge transfer (ILCT) transition between 2-aminophenyl and corrole macrocycle. The calculations of the dynamic first hyperpolarizability indicated that F
10Cor and all metal complexes have not shown strong dispersion effect under the influence of incident wavelength of 1 907 nm. The dynamic second-order NLO coefficients (
β1 907 nm) were about twice as large as static
β0 values, following an order of F
10CorCu (103.94×10
-30 esu), F
10Cor (60.60×10
-30 esu), F
10CorMn(48.75×10
-30 esu) and F
10CorGa(34.39×10
-30 esu).