Azulene-containing donor-acceptor compounds as second-order nonlinear chromophores

AE Asato, RSH Liu, VP Rao, YM Cai

Index: Asato, Alfred E.; Liu, Robert S.H.; Rao, V. Pushkara; Cai Tetrahedron Letters, 1996 , vol. 37, # 4 p. 419 - 422

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Abstract

Several novel, thermally stable azulene-containing donor-acceptor molecules were synthesized and their second-order nonlinear optical properties determined by the EFISH method. The βμ-values for these new compounds featuring azulene as the pi-electron donor were comparable with NLO compounds containing para-N, N-diethylaniline as the electron- donor.