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Jiří Kulhánek1, Filip Bureš, Wojciech Kuznik
1Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Studentská 573, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
A series of new nonlinear optical chromophores (1-15) that were comprised of ferrocene-donor and 4,5-dicyanoimidazole-acceptor moieties and various π linkers of different length were synthesized. Support for the presence of significant DA interactions in these NLO-phores was obtained from the evaluation of the quinoid character of the 1,4-phenylene moieties and their electronic absorption spectra, which featured intense high-energy (HE) bands that were accompanied by less-intense low-energy (LE) bands. The redox behavior of these compounds was investigated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and by rotating-disc voltammetry (RDV); their electrochemical gaps decreased steadily from 2.64 to 2.09 V. In addition to the experimentally obtained data, DFT calculations of their absorption spectra, HOMO/LUMO levels, and second-order polarizabilities (β) (-2ω,ω,ω) were performed. A structure-property relationship study that was performed by systematically altering the π linker revealed that the intramolecular charge-transfer and nonlinear optical properties of these inorganic-organic hybrid D-π-A systems (1-15) were primarily affected by: 1) The presence of olefinic/acetylenic subunits; 2) the length of the π linker; and 3) the spatial arrangement (planarity) of the π linker.
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