DFT QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDIES ON 1-[N-(2-PYRIDYL)AMINOMETHYLIDENE]-2(1H)-NAPHTALENONE

Abstract

Quantum chemical calculations of the structure, molecular electrostatic potential and thermodynamic functions have been performed using the density functional (DFT/B3LYP) method with the 6-311++G(d,p) basis set for the title compound 1-[ N-(2-pyridyl)aminomethylidene}-2(1H)-Naphtalenone. The energetic behavior of the title compound in solvent media has been examined by applying the Onsager and the polarizable continuum model. To investigate second order nonlinear optical properties of the title compound, the electric dipole mu, the polarizability alpha and the first hyperpolarizability beta were computed using the density functional B3LYP and CAM-B3LYP methods with the 6-311++G(d, p) basis set. According to our calculations, the title compound exhibits nonzero beta value revealing second order NLO behavior. The changes of thermodynamic properties for the formation of the title compound with the temperature ranging from 200K to 500K have been obtained using the statistical thermodynamic method. The relationship between formation enthalpy and entropy changes has been investigated with the entropy-enthalpy compensation. Besides, natural bond orbital and frontier molecular orbital analysis of the title compound were investigated by theoretical calculations.