PMID- 24704485 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141209 LR - 20140424 IS - 1873-3557 (Electronic) IS - 1386-1425 (Linking) VI - 128 DP - 2014 Jul 15 TI - Vibrational spectroscopic study, charge transfer interaction and nonlinear optical properties of L-asparaginium picrate: a density functional theoretical approach. PG - 781-9 LID - S1386-1425(14)00358-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.saa.2014.02.159 [doi] AB - Single crystals of L-asparaginium picrate (LASP) were grown by slow evaporation technique at room temperature and were the subject of an X-ray powder diffraction study to confirm the crystalline nature of the synthesized compound. FT-IR and Raman spectra were recorded and analyzed with the aid of the density functional theory (DFT) calculations in order to make a suitable assignment of the observed bands. The optimum molecular geometry, normal mode wavenumbers, infrared and Raman intensities and the first hyperpolarizability were investigated with the help of B3LYP method using 6-31G(d) basis set. The theoretical FT-IR and Raman spectra of LASP were simulated and compared with the experimental data. A good agreement was shown and a reliable vibrational assignment was made. Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis was carried out to demonstrate the various inter and intramolecular interactions that are responsible for the stabilization of the title compound leading to high NLO activity. A study on the electronic properties was performed by time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) approach. The lowering in the HOMO and LUMO energy gap explains the eventual charge transfer interactions that take place within the molecules. CI - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Elleuch, Nabil AU - Elleuch N AD - Laboratoire de Physique Appliquee (LPA), Universite de Sfax, Faculte des Sciences, BP 802, 3000 Sfax, Tunisia. Electronic address: nabil.elleuch@gmail.com. FAU - Amamou, Walid AU - Amamou W AD - Laboratoire des Sciences des Materiaux et d'Environnement, Universite de Sfax, Faculte des Sciences, BP 1171, 3000 Sfax, Tunisia. FAU - Ben Ahmed, Ali AU - Ben Ahmed A AD - Laboratoire de Physique Appliquee (LPA), Universite de Sfax, Faculte des Sciences, BP 802, 3000 Sfax, Tunisia. FAU - Abid, Younes AU - Abid Y AD - Laboratoire de Physique Appliquee (LPA), Universite de Sfax, Faculte des Sciences, BP 802, 3000 Sfax, Tunisia. FAU - Feki, Habib AU - Feki H AD - Laboratoire de Physique Appliquee (LPA), Universite de Sfax, Faculte des Sciences, BP 802, 3000 Sfax, Tunisia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20140312 PL - England TA - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc JT - Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy JID - 9602533 RN - 0 (Picrates) RN - 7006-34-0 (Asparagine) SB - IM MH - Asparagine/*chemistry MH - *Models, Molecular MH - Molecular Structure MH - Picrates/*chemistry MH - Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared/methods MH - Spectrum Analysis, Raman/methods MH - X-Ray Diffraction/methods OTO - NOTNLM OT - Charge transfer OT - DFT OT - First hyperpolarizability OT - NBO analysis OT - Vibrational spectra OT - l-Asparaginium picrate EDAT- 2014/04/08 06:00 MHDA- 2014/12/15 06:00 CRDT- 2014/04/08 06:00 PHST- 2013/12/18 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/02/20 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/02/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/04/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/04/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/12/15 06:00 [medline] AID - S1386-1425(14)00358-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.saa.2014.02.159 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2014 Jul 15;128:781-9. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2014.02.159. Epub 2014 Mar 12.