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Amide Coupling Reaction for the Synthesis of Bispyridine-based Ligands and Their Complexation to Platinum as Dinuclear Anticancer Agents
Published on: May 28, 2014
Preparation and characterization of second order non-linear optical properties of new "push-pull" platinum complexes
Annabelle Scarpaci1, Cyrille Monnereau, Noémie Hergué
1Université de Nantes, CEISAM, Chimie Et Interdisciplinarité, Synthèse, Analyse, Modélisation, UFR des Sciences et des Techniques, 2, rue de la Houssinière, BP 92208, 44322, NANTES Cedex 3, France.
Abstract:
In this contribution, we report the synthesis and characterization of the second order non-linear properties of a series of unconventional terpyridyl and dipyridylphenyl platinum complexes. These new platinum complexes consist of a tridentate ligand substituted by a high electron acceptor, and a chloro or an arylacetylide ligand. The hyper-Rayleigh scattering measurements reveal that these complexes display large quadratic hyperpolarizabilities reaching a dynamic value of 1460 x 10(-30) at 1064 nm esu for the best complex. This investigation also demonstrates that cyclometalated dipyridylphenyl platinum complexes greatly exhibit enhanced first hyperpolarizability with respect to analogous terpyridyl complexes.
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