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Design and synthesis of ruthenium oligothienylacetylide complexes. New materials for acoustically induced nonlinear optics
Fillaut, Jean-Luc,Perruchon, Johann,Blanchard, Philippe,Roncali, Jean,Golhen, Stephane,Allain, Magali,Migalsaka-Zalas, Anna,Kityk, Ivan V.,Sahraoui, Bouchta
, p. 687 - 695 (2005)
A series of new donor-π-acceptor ruthenium acetylide systems built around thiophene-based π-conjugating spacers of different lengths have been developed. Comparison of the linear and third-order nonlinear optical properties of these donor-π-acceptor chromophores shows that the elongation of the oligothiophene-based spacer or further introduction of a double bond leading to a dithienylethylene spacer produces a considerable bathochromic shift of the absorption maximum together with a dramatic enhancement of the molecular cubic hyperpolarizability. Furthermore acoustically induced second-harmonic generation (AISHG) has been observed for film composites of these complexes incorporated in PMMA matrixes and reaches values among the highest reported so far.