PMID- 22929904 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130219 LR - 20120919 IS - 1873-3557 (Electronic) IS - 1386-1425 (Linking) VI - 97 DP - 2012 Nov TI - Synthesis, growth, structural, optical, spectral, thermal and mechanical studies of 4-methoxy 4-nitrostilbene (MONS): a new organic nonlinear optical single crystal. PG - 995-1001 LID - S1386-1425(12)00749-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.saa.2012.07.128 [doi] AB - 4-Methoxy 4-nitrostilbene (MONS), a new organic nonlinear optical material has been synthesized. Based on the solubility data good quality single crystal with dimensions up to 38x11x3 mm(3) has been grown by slow evaporation method using ethyl methyl ketone (MEK) as a solvent. Powder XRD confirms the crystalline property and also the diffraction planes have been indexed. The lattice parameters for the grown MONS crystals were determined by using single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis and it reveals that the crystal lattice system is triclinic. The crystalline perfection of the grown crystals has been analysed by high resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) rocking curve measurements. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrum for powdered MONS sample confirms the functional groups present in the grown crystal. The UV-vis absorption spectrum has been recorded in the range of 190-1100 nm and the cut off wavelength 499 nm has been determined. The optical constants of MONS have been determined through UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy. The MONS crystals were further subjected to other characterizations. i.e., (1)H NMR, TG/DTA, photoluminescence and microhardness test. The Kurtz and Perry powder technique confirms the NLO property of the grown crystal and the SHG efficiency of MONS was found to be 1.55x greater than that of KDP crystal. CI - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Dinakaran, Paul M AU - Dinakaran PM AD - School of Advanced Sciences, VIT University, Vellore 632 014, India. FAU - Bhagavannarayana, G AU - Bhagavannarayana G FAU - Kalainathan, S AU - Kalainathan S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120808 PL - England TA - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc JT - Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy JID - 9602533 RN - 0 (4-methoxy 4-nitrostilbene) RN - 0 (Powders) RN - 0 (Stilbenes) SB - IM MH - Crystallization MH - Differential Thermal Analysis MH - Electric Conductivity MH - Hardness MH - Kinetics MH - Luminescence MH - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy MH - *Mechanical Phenomena MH - *Nonlinear Dynamics MH - *Optical Phenomena MH - Powders MH - Solubility MH - Spectrometry, Fluorescence MH - Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet MH - Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared MH - Stilbenes/*chemical synthesis/*chemistry MH - *Temperature MH - Thermogravimetry MH - X-Ray Diffraction EDAT- 2012/08/30 06:00 MHDA- 2013/02/21 06:00 CRDT- 2012/08/30 06:00 PHST- 2012/05/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/07/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2012/07/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/08/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/08/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/02/21 06:00 [medline] AID - S1386-1425(12)00749-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.saa.2012.07.128 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2012 Nov;97:995-1001. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2012.07.128. Epub 2012 Aug 8.