TY - JOUR A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich A1 - Boelke, Ute A1 - Kreicberga, Jana T1 - Quantification of the push-pull character of azo dyes and a basis for their evaluation as potential nonlinear optical materials N2 - The push-pull characters of a large series of donor-acceptor substituted azo dyesù71 structures in allùhave been quantified by the NN double bond lengths, dNN, the 15N NMR chemical shift differences, ;;15N, of the two nitrogen atoms and the quotient, ;*/;, of the occupations of the antibonding ;*, and bonding ; orbitals of this partial NN double bond. The excellent correlation of the occupation quotients with the bond lengths strongly infers that both ;*/; and dNN are excellent parameters for quantifying charge alternation in the push-pull chromophore and the molecular hyperpolarizability, ;0, of these compounds. By this approach, selected compounds can be appropriately considered as viable candidates for nonlinear optical (NLO) applications. Y1 - 2010 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31320 SN - 0040-4020 ER -