Tuning Second??Order Optical Nonlinearities in Push??Pull Benzimidazoles

A Carella, R Centore, A Fort, A Peluso…

Index: Carella, Antonio; Centore, Roberto; Fort, Alain; Peluso, Andrea; Sirigu, Augusto; Tuzi, Angela European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2004 , # 12 p. 2620 - 2626

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 25

Abstract

Abstract The synthesis and full characterization of new chromophores with second order optical nonlinearities containing the 2-phenyl-(5, 6)-nitrobenzimidazole group is reported. Starting from 2-{4-[(4-N, N-dihydroxyethylamino) phenylazo] phenyl}-5 (6)- nitrobenzimidazole, a combined theoretical and experimental approach, including theoretical computations of second order nonlinear optical activity (MNDO/AM1), X-ray ...