“…Oudar & LePerson (1975) have also reported the effect of conjugation length, using stilbene instead of a benzene -system. In our continuing research on NLO materials (Rahman et al, 2003;Jindawong et al, 2005;Chantrapromma et al, 2005), we expected that the two rings of quinoline, with the ethylenic C C lying in the same molecular plane, would change the molecular packing from centrosymmetric, as in our previous report (Rahman et al, 2003), to noncentrosymmetric. For this reason, the title compound, (I), was designed and synthesized.…”