Aromatic thiolate anions ArS- are expected from a semi-empirical calculatio
n with PM3 parametrisation of the MNDO Hamiltonian, to possess higher intri
nsic polarizabilities than the parent neutral thiols ArSH Noncentrosymmetri
c thiolate salts have been synthesized by the reaction of ArSH with chiral
amines and investigated for their second-order(through frequency doubling)
and third-order (through degenerate four-wave mixing technique) nonlinear o
ptical properties.