Remarkable NLO response and infrared absorption in simple twisted molecular π-chromophores

IDL Albert, TJ Marks, MA Ratner - Journal of the American …, 1998 - ACS Publications
Computational modeling reveals that, by substitutional modification of interplanar dihedral
angles in a series of quinopyrans, both the optical absorption cross section and the first …

Challenging the auxiliary donor effect on molecular hyperpolarizability in thiophene-containing nonlinear chromophores: X-ray crystallographic and optical …

CR Moylan, BJ McNelis, LC Nathan… - The Journal of …, 2004 - ACS Publications
To reexamine the established “auxiliary donor” effect of thiophene in nonlinear optical (NLO)
chromophores, we have prepared two isomeric donor− acceptor azo dyes, differing only in …

Tuning first molecular hyperpolarizabilities through the use of proaromatic spacers

R Andreu, MJ Blesa, L Carrasquer, J Garín… - Journal of the …, 2005 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we describe the second-order nonlinear optical properties of a series of 1, 3-
dithiole-based electron donor− acceptor systems incorporating proaromatic donor and …

A twist on nonlinear optics: understanding the unique response of π-twisted chromophores

AJT Lou, TJ Marks - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Materials with large nonlinear optical (NLO) response have the ability to
manipulate the frequency and phase of incident light and exhibit phenomena that form the …

Molecular engineering of benzothiazolium salts with large quadratic hyperpolarizabilities: can auxiliary electron-withdrawing groups enhance nonlinear optical …

P Hrobarik, I Sigmundova, P Zahradnik… - The Journal of …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A series of push− pull chromophores comprising a dimethylamino or diphenylamino electron-
donating functionality and a cationic benzothiazolium acceptor with an additional electron …

Large molecular hyperpolarizabilities. Quantitative analysis of aromaticity and auxiliary donor− acceptor effects

IDL Albert, TJ Marks, MA Ratner - Journal of the American …, 1997 - ACS Publications
The linear and nonlinear optical properties of donor− acceptor π-electron chromophores
having conjugated bridges varying in aromaticity and electron excessivity are investigated …

Ultra-high-response, multiply twisted electro-optic chromophores: influence of π-system elongation and interplanar torsion on hyperpolarizability

Y Shi, D Frattarelli, N Watanabe… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The systematic synthesis, structural, optical spectroscopic, and second-order nonlinear
optical (NLO) characterization of a series of donor–acceptor poly-arylene chromophores …

The roles of molecular structure and effective optical symmetry in evolving dipolar chromophoric building blocks to potent octopolar nonlinear optical chromophores

T Ishizuka, LE Sinks, K Song, ST Hung… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A series of mono-, bis-, tris-, and tetrakis (porphinato) zinc (II)(PZn)-elaborated ruthenium (II)
bis (terpyridine)(Ru) complexes have been synthesized in which an ethyne unit connects the …

Combining very large quadratic and cubic nonlinear optical responses in extended, tris-chelate metallochromophores with six π-conjugated pyridinium substituents

BJ Coe, J Fielden, SP Foxon… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
We describe a series of nine new complex salts in which electron-rich RuII or FeII centers
are connected via π-conjugated bridges to six electron-accepting N-methyl-/N …

Design of coupled porphyrin chromophores with unusually large hyperpolarizabilities

N Jiang, G Zuber, S Keinan, A Nayak… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A new series of push–pull porphyrin-based chromophores with unusually large static first
hyperpolarizabilities are designed on the basis of coupled-perturbed Hartree–Fock and …