Chemical Communications · 2001 · 62 citations · 9 references
Natural SciencesChemistryPhysicsOptical MaterialsSpectroscopyHeterocyclic ChemistryNonlinear Optical MaterialsNonlinear OpticsOrganic Electronic MaterialsOrganic SemiconductorsChromophore DesignChromophore PhotophysicsMolecular ChromophoresMolecular Nonlinear OpticsOrganic Nonlinear Optical Materials
Two new extended chromophoric systems, in which a 4-aminoazobenzene moiety is linked to a cyclo-bridged hexatriene electron withdrawing group, have been synthesized, and show large optical nonlinearities and unexpected blue-shifted absorption in comparison with shorter chain analogues.
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