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Jingyun Tan1, Rui Li, Dandan Li
1Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Materials Chemistry of Anhui Province, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, P. R. China. yptian@ahu.edu.cn jywu1957@163.com.
Abstract:
A novel 4'-(4-(diphenylamino)thienyl)-2,2':6',2''-terpyridine ligand () based on thiophene and its complexes (X = Cl, Br, I, SCN) was designed, synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, far-IR, MALDI-TOF-MS, and single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Structural studies revealed that the central zinc(ii) atom adopted a distorted trigonal bipyramidal coordination model. However, there were different hydrogen bonds and stacking models with different counter anions in the crystals. The absorption properties of the compounds were investigated with the aid of TD-DFT computational methods. Furthermore, the third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties were systematically studied via open-aperture Z-scan methods using a tunable wavelength femtosecond laser. The results from photophysical property investigations suggested that the complexation of the thiophene-based terpyridine ligand with zinc halides resulted in strong ICT/LLCT bands of about 450 nm, and the complexes exhibited strong nonlinear optical response in the near-infrared range around 850 nm. Above all, the two-photon absorption (2PA) cross-section values (σ) were enhanced by coordination with zinc and influenced by halide ions, reaching up to 2583 GM (X = Br).
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