@article{ISI:000185757100028,
  title = {Chiral and achiral contributions to sum-frequency generation from optically active solutions of binaphthol},
  journal = {JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A},
  abstract = {The nonlinear sum- and difference-frequency generation spectroscopies can be probes of molecular chirality in optically active systems. We present a tensorial analysis of the chirality-specific electric-dipolar sum-frequency-generation susceptibility and the achiral electric-quadrupolar and magnetic-dipolar nonlinearities at second order in isotropic media. The chiral and achiral contributions to the sum-frequency signal from the bulk of optically active solutions of 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol (2,2'-dehydroxy-1,1'-binaphthyl) can be distinguished, and the former dominates. Ab initio computations reveal the dramatic resonance enhancement that the isotropic component of the electric-dipolar three-wave mixing hyperpolarizability experiences. Away from resonance its magnitude rapidly decreases, as-unlike the vector component-it is zero in the static limit. The dispersion of the first hyperpolarizability is computed by a configuration interaction singles sum-over-states approach with explicit regard to the Franck-Condon active vibrational substructure for all resonant electronic states.},
  volume = {107},
  number = {40},
  pages = {8232-8238},
  year = {2003},
  slug = {isi-000185757100028},
  author = {Fischer, Peer and Wise, FW and Albrecht, AC}
}