Donor - Acceptor thiolated polyenic chromophores exhibiting large optical nonlinearity and excellent photostability

Yen-Ju Cheng; Jingdong Luo; Su Huang; Xinghua Zhou; Zhengwei Shi; Tae Dong Kim; Denise H. Bale; Satsuki Takahashi; Andrew Yick; Brent M. Polishak; Sei Hum Jang; Larry R. Dalton; Philip J. Reid; William H. Steier; Alex K.Y. Jen

doi:10.1021/cm801097k

Donor - Acceptor thiolated polyenic chromophores exhibiting large optical nonlinearity and excellent photostability

Yen-Ju Cheng, Jingdong Luo, Su Huang, Xinghua Zhou, Zhengwei Shi, Tae Dong Kim, Denise H. Bale, Satsuki Takahashi, Andrew Yick, Brent M. Polishak, Sei Hum Jang, Larry R. Dalton, Philip J. Reid, William H. Steier, Alex K.Y. Jen

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Abstract

We have successfully utilized epoxyisophorone ring-opening chemistry to efficiently incorporate the butylthio group to the phenyltetraene bridge of highly efficient nonlinear optical chromophores in high overall yield. By following the guidance of Dewar's rules, the sulfur atom functions as a moderate π-accepting group at a starred position of the conjugated bridge. Several of very critical material parameters of the phenyltetraenic chromophores for device applications have been intrinsically and simultaneously improved through such a simple and straightforward engineering of molecular structures. Compared with the nonsubstituted analogue 2, thiolated chromophore 1 achieves higher molecular hyperpolarizability (34%), enhanced E-O coefficient (38%), significantly improved photochemical stability against ¹O₂ (by an order of magnitude), and better optical transparency (17 nm blue-shifted λ_max absorption spectrum).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5047-5054
Number of pages	8
Journal	Chemistry of Materials
Volume	20
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/cm801097k
State	Published - 12 Aug 2008

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Cheng, Y.-J., Luo, J., Huang, S., Zhou, X., Shi, Z., Kim, T. D., Bale, D. H., Takahashi, S., Yick, A., Polishak, B. M., Jang, S. H., Dalton, L. R., Reid, P. J., Steier, W. H., & Jen, A. K. Y. (2008). Donor - Acceptor thiolated polyenic chromophores exhibiting large optical nonlinearity and excellent photostability. Chemistry of Materials, 20(15), 5047-5054. https://doi.org/10.1021/cm801097k

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