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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 145, Issue 44, Pages 24401-24407Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c09573
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This article reports two new borate halides with moderate birefringence and small walk-off angle, which are caused by the nonparallel arrangement of clusters. This study is of great significance for understanding the properties of borates and improving their applications.
The [B3O6] group as a prime functional unit provides borates with intrinsic properties that are modified by coordination to cations. Inherent [B3O6] cluster structures in borates exclusively made of them have a near-plane configuration, with more than 90% of them having a maximum dihedral angle of zero and the remaining ones being less than 13 degrees. Although such an inherent configuration can produce considerable birefringence for good phase-matching ability, this is not conducive to obtaining high conversion efficiency and beam quality due to the walk-off effects in the nonlinear optical process. In this article, two new borate halides Ca2B3O6X (X = Cl and Br) were reported, in which the confinement effects of distorted halogen-centered secondary building blocks compress the existence space of [B3O6] primitives, resulting in the nonparallel arrangement between [B3O6] clusters in this series. Both compounds show large second harmonic generation effects, and more importantly, the broken inherent interarrangement of [B3O6] clusters makes them a moderate birefringence and small walk-off angle. Their moderate birefringence is due to the large angular alignment between [B3O6] clusters, resulting from the orbital hybridization between the Ca s and the O p orbitals of the terminal O atoms on [B3O6] clusters. Our model supports this viewpoint and offers guidelines for rearranging [B3O6] clusters' arrangements in borates.
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