Synthesis and structures of thieno [2, 3-b] thiophene incorporated [3.3] dithiacyclophanes. Enhanced first hyperpolarizability in an unsymmetrically polarized …
Dithiacyclophanes incorporating thieno [2, 3-b] thiophene have been synthesized, in order to investigate the nonlinear optical properties of donor–acceptor cyclophane 7. Cyclophane 7 displayed significantly higher first hyperpolarizability β (21.6× 10− 30esu) compared to model 10 (9.58× 10− 30esu). Relatively higher β in 7 presumably arises from an extra electron redistribution arising from through-space charge transfer, a feature lacking in 10. ...