First lanthanide dipolar complexes for second-order nonlinear optics

Katell Sénéchal; Loïc Toupet; Isabelle Ledoux; Joseph Zyss; Hubert Le Bozec; Olivier Maury

doi:10.1039/b407073a

First lanthanide dipolar complexes for second-order nonlinear optics

Chem Commun (Camb). 2004 Oct 7:(19):2180-1. doi: 10.1039/b407073a. Epub 2004 Sep 8.

Authors

Katell Sénéchal¹, Loïc Toupet, Isabelle Ledoux, Joseph Zyss, Hubert Le Bozec, Olivier Maury

Affiliation

¹ Organométalliques et Catalyse: Chimie et Electrochimie Moléculaires, UMR 6509 CNRS-Université de Rennes 1, Institut de Chimie de Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.

PMID: 15467861
DOI: 10.1039/b407073a

Abstract

New push-pull NLO-phores based on lanthanide complexes (Ln = La, Gd, Dy, Yb) featuring an annelated dibutylaminophenyl functionalised terpyridyl ligand have been synthesised and shown to exhibit large first-order hyperpolarizability.