Second-Harmonic Generation in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Cadmium Thiocyanates Containing Terminal Amino Acids.

Using chiral amino acids as terminal ligands, colorless crystals of Cd(SCN)(l-CHNO)(HO)·0.5CHOH () and Cd(SCN)(l-CHNO) () were obtained by a solvent evaporation method. Compound has a layered structure with a moderate second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency (0.