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A molecular approach to optical rectification via the imaginary part of the second-order susceptibility related to electric dipole interaction with the radiation field is presented. A quantum-mechanical expression for the frequency dependence of the effect is obtained and its magnitude is estimated in absorption bands of a three-level model.