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Mubashar Ilyas1, Lin Xiong2, Li Zhang2
1Key Laboratory of Clusters Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China.
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In pursuit of new ultraviolet (UV) nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, a novel cobalt-based hydrogen-bonded coordination complex, [complex (1)], is synthesized via a slow evaporation method. Complex (1) crystallizes in the noncentrosymmetric (NCS) space group P21 and features a distorted octahedral Co(II) coordination environment that extends into a 3D framework. Remarkably, complex (1) exhibits a strong second-harmonic generation (SHG) response, approximately 7.4 times greater than that of KH2PO4 (KDP). The pronounced activity arises from robust hydrogen-bonding interactions that suppress antiparallel packing, as well as from the highly distorted, polarizable Co(II) coordination geometry. In addition, complex (1) exhibits an optical bandgap (3.41 eV), indicating UV transparency. These findings make a complex (1) Co(II)-based framework that can be used in UV NLO applications and emphasize it as an effective synthetic approach to the design of polar metal-organic systems with improved optical properties.
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