Synthesis, crystal structures, spectroscopic and nonlinear optical properties of chalcone derivatives: A combined experimental and theoretical study

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.molstruc.2017.03.090

A set of chalcone compounds were prepared by reacting p-bromoacetophenone with various substituted aromatic aldehyde in ethanol using sodium ethoxide as base. The synthesized molecules were well characterized using spectroscopic techniques like UV–Vis, fo