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Synfacts 2006(8): 0782-0782
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-941963
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-941963
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Zwitterionic Chromophores for Nonlinear Optics
Y. Liao, S. Bhattacharjee, K. A. Firestone, B. E. Eichinger, R. Paranji, C. A. Anderson, B. H. Robinson*, P. J. Reid, L. R. Dalton*
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Publication History
Publication Date:
21 July 2006 (online)
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Significance
Chromophore 1 is comprised of a neutral component (A) and a zwitterionic component (B) tethered together with a flexible linker. It was synthesized and characterized by 1H NMR and Hyper-Rayleigh scattering. The ground-state dipole moments of the individual components were shown to align in an antiparallel (subtractive) fashion whereas the first-order hyperpolarizabilities (β) of the individual chromophores were shown to couple additively, thus making 1 an ideal candidate for an organic non-linear optical (NLO) material.