The condensation in one step of a series of salicylaldehydes and 2-amino-5-nitrophenol with 1-naphthylboronic acid, 2-naphthylboronic acid, and
o-tolylboronic acid to give the corresponding boronates
1a–
3a,
1b–
3b and
1c–
3d, is reported. The X-ray crystal structures of
1a,
2b and
3b allowed determining the
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β-angle between the stilbene skeleton and the aryl or naphthylboronic fragments; these values are indicative of different conformations for the aryl moieties around the (B–C) boron–carbon bond which could potentially modulate the electronic properties on the boron stilbene compounds. All compounds were characterized by
1H,
11B and
13C NMR spectroscopy, UV, IR and mass spect
rometry. Second- and third-order non-linear optical characterizations were also performed by EFISH and THG Maker Fringe techniques, respectively. Compounds
3a–
3d containing an –N(Et)
2 donor group gave the best NLO response in second- and third-order.