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Chemical Communications

A new class of organic donor–acceptor molecules with large third-order optical nonlinearities†

Tsuyoshi Michinobu,a   Joshua C. May,b   Jin H. Lim,b   Corinne Boudon,c   Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht,c   Paul Seiler,a   Maurice Gross,c   Ivan Biaggio*b  and  François Diederich*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
E-mail: diederich@org.chem.ethz.ch

b Center of Optical Technologies and Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

c Laboratoire d'Electrochimie et de Chimie Physique du Corps Solide, UMR 7512, C.N.R.S., Université Louis Pasteur, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

Donor–acceptor molecules with 4-(dimethylamino)phenyl donor and 1,1,4,4-tetracyanobuta-1,3-diene acceptor moieties are readily prepared by short, high-yielding routes. The quite small chromophores are characterised by X-ray crystallography and feature intense intramolecular charge-transfer bands, substantial quinoid character in the donor rings, reversible electrochemical reductions and oxidations and powerful third-order optical nonlinearities.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B417393G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Nov 2004
Accepted
06 Dec 2004
First published
17 Jan 2005

Chem. Commun., 2005, 737-739

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A new class of organic donor–acceptor molecules with large third-order optical nonlinearities

T. Michinobu, J. C. May, J. H. Lim, C. Boudon, J. Gisselbrecht, P. Seiler, M. Gross, I. Biaggio and F. Diederich, Chem. Commun., 2005, 737 DOI: 10.1039/B417393G

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