辐射引发和热引发聚丙烯腈纤维的自由基研究

利用电子自旋共振波谱(ESR)研究了聚丙烯腈(PAN)纤维在真空以及空气气氛下经γ射线辐射引发和热引发产生的自由基. 结果显示,室温下辐射诱导产生的自由基为烷基自由基和聚亚胺自由基,辐射产生的自由基随温度升高而衰减,150 ℃时完全消失. 热引发的自由基则依赖于温度和氧气, 当PAN纤维在空气中加热至190 ℃时,开始产生多烯自由基,而且自由基浓度随温度升高而迅速增加;在真空条件下,PAN纤维经加热只产生极少量自由基. 据此推断,热引发自由基是通过热氧化反应产生的,这类自由基位于共轭结构上,其共轭长度也随温度的升高而增加.     

手性和构型的识别Ⅰ.开链氮氧化物的ESR研究

我们将微波电子自族共振仪的吸收谐振腔为光化学反应器.在其各种流体及温度的范围内讨论其光化学效应.作者所用的模型乃是有机烷基-亚硝酸类在醇类的动力研究,许多不同的双氢氧烷基及烷氧基-烷基与一氧化氮所结合的自由基均由光分解而产生不同的电子自旋共振光谱.最有兴趣的是产生对映结构的双氢氧乙烷基与一氧化氮所结合的异构物自由基,它们的几何形态可用分子振动理论及共价键理论来解析.自标准化学键长及化学键角度,这些烷氧基-烷基与一氧化氛所结合的自由基还存在很强的氢键,这些将会在科学上,如生物化学、生物学及医学上的氧化及还原反应有相当重要的位置.     

含萘聚芳醚酮共聚物热处理后产生自由基的ESR谱

萘环摩尔含量20%的聚芳醚酮（PANEK）无规共聚物在340 ℃空气条件下发生交联反应，经过不同时间的热处理后，在室温检测热处理后产生的自由基ESR谱. 它们都有一条较强的单峰，随着热处理时间的增长，自由基ESR谱的幅度增强，将微波功率加大到200 mW, 谱线发生明显的变化，出现两条重叠在一起的谱线，说明含萘环聚芳醚酮在热处理过程中产生了两种不同的自由基. 文中模拟、讨论了热处理过程中产生的两种自由基的归属，一种是RO·自由基，另一种是萘自由基，它们都参与交联反应，RO·自由基起主要作用.     

Isomerization kinetics of benzylic and methylphenyl type radicals in single-ring aromatics

Mutual isomerization through H-atom shifts in benzylic and methylphenyl type radicals are examined for toluene, and o-, m-, and p-xylene isomers. In the high temperature pyrolysis and oxidation of toluene, three possible methylphenyl radical isomers can be formed (2-, 3-, and 4-methylphenyl). The 2-methylphenyl radical may undergo a facile isomerization to benzyl through a four-membered ring critical structure – a pathway not accessible to 3- and 4-methylphenyl. Electronic structure calculations show that 2-methylphenyl isomerization to benzyl is preferred energetically by at least 20 kcal/mol over other possibilities. Monte Carlo RRKM/master equation simulations illustrate that, at temperatures ?1200 K, and for almost all pressures, the 2-methylphenyl radical has a lifetime of only several microseconds, whereas 3- and 4-methylphenyl radicals have a substantially longer lifetime, allowing them to react with other species, including molecular oxygen, during toluene oxidation. This is also found to be the case for all dimethylphenyl radicals in the three xylene isomers. As a result, the structure of the xylene isomers and specifically the number of H atoms immediately adjacent to the methyl groups can have a direct impact on their high-temperature oxidation and appear to explain the observed differences in xylene oxidation behind reflected shock waves and in laminar premixed flames.     

Study of scavenging action of zingerone towards the OH radical: formation of vanillin and ferulic acid

The scavenging action of zingerone, a phenolic anti‐oxidant, toward the hydroxyl radical has been studied employing density functional theory. All the relevant potential energy surface extrema were located by optimizing geometries of the reactant complexes, transition states, and product complexes in gas phase. Solvent effect of aqueous media was treated by performing single point energy calculations using the polarizable continuum model. It has been shown how following certain steps of hydrogen abstraction and addition reactions and using a few OH radicals along with zingerone or its degradation products, two other anti‐oxidants, namely vanillin and ferulic acid can be formed. The mechanism of anti‐oxidant action of zingerone through single electron transfer has also been studied. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Symmetry breaking,diradicals, and Coping with and Coping without Ernest Davidson

This paper describes a collaboration between Professor Ernest Davidson and the author, which began in 1976 and lasted until Ernest left the University of Washington in 1984. During those 9 years we co-authored a total of 34 papers that described the results of ab initio calculations on a variety of different types of organic molecules, These included anti-aromatic annulenes, carbanions, carbenes, conjugated radicals and radical cations, and non-Keklé hydrocarbon diradicals. Our collaboration led to insights about symmetry breaking, both real and artefactual, which formed the basis for a frequently-cited review article on this subject that we co-authored. However, our most often-referenced paper was concerned with predicting the sizes and signs of the singlet-triplet splittings in diradicals, based on whether or not the non-bonding Hückel molecular orbitals of a diradical can be chosen so that they are confined to disjoint sets of atoms. In 1984, we co-authored a paper on the Cope rearrangement. Since then, we have both continued to publish papers on this interesting reaction, but independently, rather than together. The results of the calculations that we each performed on the Cope rearrangement and how this reaction is affected by radical-stabilizing substituents are described. Our independent discoveries, that calculations beyond the CASSCF level are necessary in order to describe correctly the transition structure for the Cope rearrangement, led to our most recent joint publication, a 1996 review on the general importance of including dynamic correlation in ab initio calculations.     

Photoamination of 1‐hydroxyanthraquinone in a water‐acetonitrile mixed solvent

We investigated the photoamination kinetics of 1‐hydroxyanthraquinones in a water‐acetonitrile mixed solvent by stationary light irradiation. The progression of the reaction under an inert atmosphere demonstrated the existence of additional reaction pathways. The excited triplet state of the base form of the 1‐hydroxyanthraquinones was found to be responsible for the additional pathways. On the other hand, the same reaction under air involved an attack of the amine‐derived radical species (aminium and amino radicals) on the ground state of the 1‐hydroxyanthraquinones. One of the pathways preferentially led to 2‐amination, and the other led exclusively to 4‐amination. Results also indicate the attainment of an equilibrium state between the aminium and amino radicals. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The effects of insertion of nitrogen atoms on the aromatic nitrogen‐containing compounds: a potential approach for designing stable radical molecular materials

The effects of insertion of nitrogen atoms on the N―H bond strength of azaphenalene and on the stability of the corresponding radicals were comprehensively investigated using density functional theory. The N―H bond dissociation enthalpy of azaphenalene is found to be strengthened in all cases, but the magnitudes are various with the replaced sites and are additive. It is correlated with the coefficient of frontier molecular orbital; that is, it is correlated with the electron density distribution of the outer electrons. The computational results explain why the product substituted with two CH groups by N atoms in the phenalenyl skeleton yielded radical easily, whereas the product replaced with six nitrogen atoms failed. In addition, the effects of insertion of nitrogen atoms in other aromatic nitrogen‐containing compounds, including carbazole, indole, and pyrrole, were also studied. All the understanding about the insertion effects of nitrogen atoms would be helpful in designing novel molecules for specific applications, such as functional materials and antioxidants. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

心肌缺血再灌过程中自由基生成动力学的ESR研究

采用自旋捕捉ESR方法研究了大白鼠和豚鼠在心肌缺血再灌注中自由基产生的动力学过程,首次测出复氧过程中羟基自由基变化的动力学曲线.同时结果还表明,在缺血后的复氧过程中除羟基·OH之外,还有碳中心自由基R·和可能的烷氧基RO·的生成,但其中·OH基生成的量经常是最大的.由于·OH基具有很高的反应活性,因而不可避免地就会通过它的夺氢作用导致碳中心自由基R的生成.特别有趣的是,羟基产生过程中其ESR信号的强度总是随着时间不断地增强而达到一最大值,然后又逐步地缓慢衰减到趋于几乎消失,此现象迄今尚未见有文献报道.我们建立了可近似表征羟基自由基生成速度的上升和下降过程的动力学方程.自由基生成与变化过程亦可近似地用退化分支链反应图式来予以描述.在所提出的链反应过程图式中,可对于通常所谓脂质体过氧化的过程,给予以合理的解释.     

红外光谱原位跟踪活性自由基聚合反应过程研究

使用新型可插入式红外光谱仪原位检测在4－羟基2，2，6，6－四甲基氧化哌啶醇（HTEMPO）存在下苯乙烯稳定自由基活性均聚合反应和苯乙烯／甲基丙烯酸羟丙酯的共聚合反应以及苯乙烯原子转移活性自由基聚合（ATRP）反应三个过程，分别考虑了它们的反应动力学，并给出了可能的聚合反应机理。研究结果表明，对于均相的苯乙烯（St)均聚合反应和苯乙烯（St)/甲基丙烯酸羟丙酯（HPMA）的自由基共聚合反应体系，聚合反应显示一定的诱导期，与反应体系中存在的HTEMPO捕捉自由基有关，而对于St／HPMA共聚合体系，诱导期更长，这是因为HPMA易和HTEMPO自由基发生氢转移反应，导致游离的HTEMPO浓度升高。最后用红外光谱实时跟踪苯乙烯非均相ATRP过程，发现苯乙烯聚合反应动力学接近于表现零级。因为单体分子在由增长自由基、卤化铜和联二吡啶形成的络合物的界面增长，与单体相内St浓度无关。     

An EPR and DFT study on the primary radical formed in hydroxylation reactions of 2,6-dimethoxy-1,4-benzoquinone

The quinone compound 2,6-dimethoxy-1,4-benzoquinone is hydroxylated in alkaline aqueous solution with pH above 12. Electron paramagnetic resonance experiments showed that two transient radicals are formed in this reaction. The radical appearing first is assigned to a one electron reduced 2,6-dimethoxy-1,4-benzoquinone, receiving the electron from an intermediate anionic hydroxylated species. For this primary radical, all proton couplings were determined (quinoid ring protons: 1.453?G, methyl protons: 0.795?G). The density functional theory method was applied to obtain electronic and structural information of the primary radical and a solution structure is suggested. For approaching the experimental hyperfine couplings in theoretical models, it was necessary to consider effects of external polarisation arising from water molecules near one carbonyl group, and the orientation of methoxy groups towards the quinone ring. With this approach, the secondary radical formed in the hydroxylation reaction, and the transient radicals found for other biologically important quinones (including coenzymes Q) and their hydroxylated species may become accessible.     

羟基和超氧自由基的检测研究进展

活细胞在必需的新陈代谢过程中会产生自由基,越来越多的研究证据表明, 这些自由基涉及到许多体内调控系统,然而一旦有过多的自由基生成便会氧化细胞脂膜、蛋白质、DNA和酶,进而对细胞造成致命性的损伤。此外,研究还表明许多疾病与自由基密切相关, 例如,有研究报道海氏默症病人脑中生物分子的氧化损伤程度明显高于正常值,另外癌症可能也是DNA受到氧化损伤的结果。因此,测定自由基的方法就显得十分必需和重要。文章重点对羟基和超氧自由基检测技术的发展情况进行了讨论,涉及的自由基检测技术主要有分光光度法、荧光法、化学发光法和电子自旋共振技术,并评价了各种方法的优缺点。     

Contact electrification of polymers due to electron transfer among mechano anions,mechano cations and mechano radicals

Many studies have been reported for contact electrification based on the electron transfer from donors to acceptors. However, the chemical structures of donors and acceptors have not been identified. Here we calculated the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels of model structures of mechano anions, mechano cations and mechano radicals which were produced by the heterogeneous and homogeneous scissions of covalent bonds comprising polymer main chain in vacuum at 77 K. We identified the donors are mechano anions(HOMO) and mechano radicals(HOMO), and the acceptors are mechano cations(LUMO) and mechano radicals(LUMO). The contact electrification is due to the electron transfer from the donors to the acceptors during contacting on the friction surface, and produces mosaic nano-scopic domains with opposite sign. The sign of the net charge of polymer was deduced from the number of paths of electron acceptance reaction. The relative sign of charge and position on the triboelectric series were deduced from their chemical structure.     

含萘环聚芳醚酮类聚合物的分子设计与性质研究

聚芳醚酮类聚合物由于具有优良的韧性、刚性、耐热等级高、电性能、耐辐射、耐疲劳、耐冲击、抗蠕变、耐磨、耐热水性好、阻燃性好等特点,在热塑性聚合物领域占有极其重要的位置. 其在航空、航天、核能、信息、通讯、电子电信、石油化工、机械制造、交通运输等高技术领域得到了成功的应用,使许多行业的传统产品实现了更新换代. 但是,随着世界新科技革命的蓬勃发展,对高性能结构材料提出了日益广泛而迫切的需求. 为进一步提高聚芳醚酮类聚合物的性能,满足某些特殊情况下的使用要求（例如高温、高辐照强度）,可考虑对它们进行交联. 使之可用热塑性材料的加工方法加工,然后通过热处理使其交联,成为热固性材料. 这就要求在聚合物链上引入可交联基团. 常用的脂肪族交联基团的引入,会导致聚芳醚酮耐热性降低,而只能寻找芳香族可交联集团的聚合物材料. 本论文的目的是从分子结构设计的角度出发,从合成新型单体入手,采用芳香族亲核取代路线,将萘环引入聚合物主链,合成出一系列的新型含萘环聚芳醚酮类聚合物,并在不同条件下对它们进行了热处理. 主要利用电子自旋共振（ESR）这一手段对热处理前后的聚合物进行了表征,研究了聚合物的热交联行为,讨论了萘环的化学环境、键连位置及热处理条件对交联反应的影响,建议了交联机理.  我们首先通过1,5-萘二酚(1, 5-DHN)、对苯二酚(HQ)和4,4′-二氟二苯酮（DFB）合成了新型高分子量的含1,5-萘二醚型聚醚醚酮无规共聚物（1, 5-PENEK）,发现随着萘环含量的增加, 聚合物的玻璃化转变温度升高,熔点和结晶能力逐步下降直至消失,力学性能略有下降但基本保持了聚芳醚酮的优良性能. 这些性质的改变是由于萘环的引入在增加了聚合物的刚性同时也降低了聚合物的有序排列能力所致. 通过DSC、WAXR检测发现,1,5-萘二醚型聚醚醚酮共聚物（1, 5-PENEK）在320 ℃以上空气中处理时发生交联反应. 随着萘环含量的增加及处理温度的提高,聚合物的玻璃化转变温度增高速度加快,结晶性能迅速下降. 当处理前后的样品用ESR定量检测时,发现只存在一个单峰,并且其幅度随着热处理时间的增加而增强. 增加微波功率时发现在谱峰的两侧有很弱的突起,采用微波功率饱和特性方法证实样品中存在两种性质不同的R₁和R₂自由基. 在不同气氛下处理该样品, 从它们ESR谱的特征推测：R₁可能是RO·自由基,采用改变ESR的检测温度的方法进一步确认热处理后的聚合物中R₁自由基是RO·自由基,并且经计算证明RO·自由基是与分子链中萘环相关联的. 我们又通过模拟的方法证实R₂自由基是萘环自由基. 通过作RO·自由基、萘环自由基的自旋浓度随热处理时间变化曲线发现两种自由基都参与了交联反应,只是RO·自由基的浓度明显高于萘环自由基,在交联反应中起主导作用. 两种自由基浓度随热处理时间的变化趋势相同,即在热处理前期自由基浓度随时间增长很快,中期则变化不大,而后呈线性增长. 可以认为,热处理前期,主要是自由基的激发过程,而中期生成的自由基大多以双基终止的方式被消耗掉,对浓度增长没有明显贡献. 玻璃化转变温度与此相反的变化趋势支持这一结论. 恒温热失重实验表明,1, 5-PENEK在340 ℃热处理时出现明显的分解,说明1, 5-PENEK在340 ℃发生的热交联反应是裂解交联反应. 通过以上测试结果,得到了含1,5-萘二醚型聚醚醚酮共聚物（1, 5-PENEK）在340 ℃热交联的反应机理.  第二部分,我们从1,4-萘二甲酸出发,经过酰氯化反应及付氏酰基化反应,合成了新型单体1,4-二（4-氟苯羰基）萘(1, 4-BFN). 并且利用所得到的单体和4,4′-二氟二苯酮（DFB）与对苯二酚（HQ）通过亲核取代反应合成了含1,4-萘环的聚醚醚酮酮共聚物（1, 4-PEEKNK）. 测试结果表明, 随着萘环含量的增加,1, 4-PEEKNK的玻璃化转变温度升高、 溶解性变好、熔点下降直至消失,1,4-PEEKNK均聚物的力学性能与PEEK相近. 经260 ℃以上热处理的1, 4-PEEKNK均聚物的热分析实验结果表明,随着处理时间或处理温度的增加, 玻璃化转变温度升高. 从而推断在空气中热处理时聚合物发生了交联反应. 结合FT－IR、NMR等提出,交联反应是发生在萘环上的交联反应. 我们同样采用了ESR技术对1, 4-PEEKNK聚合物的交联反应类型进行了研究. 发现自由基的浓度随着处理时间的增加同样经历了3个阶段,由此我们判断1,4-PEEKNK聚合物发生的交联反应为自由基交联反应. 在不同热处理温度下1, 4-PEEKNK聚合物处理8 h的自由基自旋浓度表明在260 ℃和300 ℃热处理时自由基浓度增加的很少,与未处理样品的浓度几乎一致,认为这是由于在此温度下自由基激发的速度相对缓慢, 因此自由基全部被用于交联反应. 但是在340 ℃热处理时,自由基的浓度则急剧增加,这说明在此温度下自由基产生的速度极快甚至也产生了其它种类自由基,虽然聚合物也发生了交联反应,但是有大量自由基剩余而不利于材料的进一步使用. 恒温热失重结果说明在260 ℃热处理的1, 4-PEEKNK未发生裂解反应. 通过以上结果,给出了1, 4-PEEKNK在260 ℃热交联的交联反应机理.  总之,我们合成了两种不同萘环化学环境及不同键连接方式的聚合物,对其基本性质进行了研究,并且发现两种聚合物在空气中于一定温度下热处理时都发生了交联反应,但交联方式及交联机理各有不同. 就综合性质及应用要求而言,我们认为1,4-萘二酮型聚合物PEEKNK作为全芳香性可交联聚芳醚酮类材料应具有很好的应用前景.     

等离子体制取羟自由基降解苯酚溶液及其历程的UV研究

研究了利用强电离放电产生等离子体方法制取羟基自由基氧化降解高浓度苯酚废水。当羟基自由基浓度达到1 037 mg·L-1时,初始浓度为1 215 mg·L-1的废水降解率达99.11%;初始浓度为8 853 mg·L-1的废水苯酚浓度下降到6 250 mg·L-1,1 mg羟基自由基可处理苯酚2.5 mg。在同样羟自由基浓度下,苯酚初始浓度越小,去除率越高;但初始浓度越高,处理的绝对量越大。阐述并解释了不同降解阶段废水pH值、电导率与羟基自由基浓度变化的关系。随着羟自由基浓度的增大,废水酸碱性由接近中性逐渐转为酸性,浓度越大,酸性越强;继续增大羟自由基浓度,变化渐趋平缓。随着羟自由基的通入,电导率有一个微小的降低阶段然后开始上升,说明苯酚不断的被氧化为有机酸。通过紫外图谱和色谱分析了降解中间产物,表明氧化初始阶段邻苯二酚、对苯二酚和苯醌是其中重要的化合物。     

Thermal decomposition of furans with oxygenated substituents: A combined experimental and quantum chemical study

Furans are an important class of compounds that can be thermochemical or enzymatically produced from biomass. Despite of their importance little is known about the thermal decomposition of furans with oxygenated substituents. In this work, the influence of the -CH₃, -CH₂OH and -CHO functional groups on the molecular and radical decomposition chemistry is studied with a combined quantum chemical and experimental approach using 2-furfuryl alcohol and 5-methyl furfural as model components.The quantum chemistry calculations show that both reactants can decompose by a ring-opening isomerization reaction and through carbene intermediates. The latter are formed by the shift of a hydrogen atom or a -CHO functional group within the furan ring structure. The -CHO functional group on the furan ring structure accelerates the molecular ring-opening isomerization reaction, while it suppresses carbene formation channels compared to other functional groups.The weaker CH and CO bonds in 2-furfuryl alcohol and 5-methyl furfural compared to furan and furfural respectively result in a higher importance of radical chemistry that cannot be neglected. This is confirmed experimentally by analyzing the product spectrum with molecular beam synchrotron VUV photoionization mass spectrometry at a pressure of 0.04 bar and for temperatures between 923 K to 1223 K for 2-furfuryl alcohol and 973 K to 1273 K for 5-methyl furfural. For both reactants several radical intermediates are observed starting from 923 K for 2-furfuryl alcohol and from 973 K for 5-methyl furfural. Examples of measured radicals are those initial formed from the reactant by a CH homolytic bond scission and methyl, allyl, propargyl, 1,2-butadiene-4-yl, 2-furanyl-methyl, 2,5-dihydrofuran-2-yl and 1?hydroxyl-2-furanyl-methyl radicals.     

Turning single bubble sonoluminescence from blue in pure water to green by adding trace amount of carbon nanodots

Sonoluminescence (SL) is an interesting physical effect which can convert acoustic energy into light pulses. Up to now, the microscopic mechanism of the SL has not yet been fully clear. It is known that hydroxyl radicals play the important role for SL from water. In this work, we take advantage of carbon nano-dots (CNDs) as free radical captors to modulate the hydroxyl radicals (OH) in SL effect. Through studying the single bubble SL (SBSL) from CND aqueous solution (CNDAS) with trace amount of CNDs, we find that the color of SBSL is tuned dramatically from blue in water to green in CNDAS. Two different SL mechanisms can be identified from emission spectrum. One comes from blackbody-like radiation and another is attributed from the characteristic emission with identified peaks. The decrease in the yield of H₂O₂ in the presence of CNDs suggests the modulation effect on SL via OH interacting with CNDs. By comparison of the CNDs before and after sonication, it is found that hydroxyl radicals generated during SL can take part in the chain-like oxidation of the chemical groups attached to the CNDs to form larger amount of carboxyl groups. The blackbody temperature of blackbody-like radiation decreases from 15,600 K in water to 11,300 K in CNDAS. Moreover, the emission from hydroxyl radicals and two new luminescent centers related to carboxyl groups are introduced in SL from CNDAS. These important and interesting findings indicate that by adding trace amount of CNDs in water, the effect of SBSL can be significantly modulated, which can provide a macroscopic phenomenon for gaining an insight into the microscopic mechanism of the SL effect.     

Novel sparse component analysis approach to free radical EPR spectra decomposition

Free radicals play important roles in many physiological and pathological pathways in biological systems. These free radicals can be detected and quantified by their EPR spectra. The measured EPR spectra are often mixtures of pure spectra of several different free radicals and other chemicals. Blind source separation can be applied to estimate the pure spectra of interested free radicals. However, since the pure EPR spectra are often not independent of each other, the approach based on independent component analysis (ICA) cannot accurately extract the required spectra. In this paper, a novel sparse component analysis method for blind source separation, which exploits the sparsity of the EPR spectra, is presented to reliably extract the pure source spectra from their mixtures with high accuracy. This method has been applied to the analysis of EPR spectra of superoxide, hydroxyl, and nitric oxide free radicals, for both simulated data and real world ex vivo experiment. Compared to the traditional self-modeling method and our previous ICA-based blind source separation method, the proposed sparse component analysis approach gives much better results and can give perfect separation for mixtures of superoxide spectrum and hydroxyl spectrum in the ideal noise-free case. This method can also be used in other similar applications of quantitative spectroscopy analysis.     

Electron paramagnetic resonance study of free radicals inγ-irradiated single crystal of tris(glycine) calcium(II) dibromide

Tris(glycine) calcium(II) dibromide single crystal has been irradiated with aγ-source to produce free radicals and the irradiated sample has been subjected toepr studies. The observed spectra reveal that an NH₄ radical is formed by rupturing glycine molecule due to irradiation. The unpaired electron is localized on the C-N bond. The proton hyperfine interaction on the unpaired spin shows orthorhombic symmetry and the spectroscopic splitting factor remains isotropic.     

Theoretical Study on the Second Hyperpolarizabilities for Small Radical Systems

We study the second hyperpolarizabilities (ɣ) for anion, neutral and cation radicals and find that magnitudes of ɣ (| ɣ |) of the radicals are sensitively influenced by features of each charged state. It is also found that electron-correlation dependence of ɣ could be related to the resonance structure contributing to the ground state of the molecules.This paper was originally presented at the 5th International Conference on NEAR FIELD OPTICS and RELATED TECHNOLOGIES (NFO-5), which was held on December 6–10, 1998 at Coganoi Bay Hotel, Shirahama, Japan, in cooperation with the Japan Society of Applied Physics and Mombusho Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Near-field Nano-optics” Project, sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.