Eighteen structures of new organic alkalides (M
+@
n6adz)M'
- (M, M' = Li,
Na, K;
n = 2, 3) with the alkali-metal cation M
+ lying near the center of the adz cage and the alkali-metal anion M'
- located outside areobtained with all real frequencies. They exhibit very large static first hyperpolarizabilities (
0) up to 3.2 ×10
5 au, which exceeds the record value of
0 = 1.7 × 10
5 au for nonlinear optical compounds [
Chem.-
Eur.J. 1997,
3, 1091]. All potassides (M
+@
n6adz)K
- (M = Li, Na, K;
n = 2, 3) have considerably large
0values (1.6 × 10
5-3.2 × 10
5 au) much larger than the
0 value (3.6 × 10
4 au) of the previously designedcuplike alkalide Li
+(calix[4]pyrrole)K
- [
J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2006,
128, 1072]. This shows that the 2
6adz and3
6adz cage complexants are preferable to cuplike calix[4]pyrrole complexant in enhancing the firsthyperpolarizability. The effect of cage size of the complexant on the first hyperpolarizability is also presentedhere: in most cases, the smaller cage complexant corresponds to the larger
0 value. Moreover, the crucialrole by the alkali-metal anion in the large first hyperpolarizability of these alkalides is revealed. These resultsmay provide new means for designing high-performance nonlinear optical materials.