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Bridge improvement work: maximising non-linear optical performance in polyoxometalate derivatives

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  • Claire F. Jones
  • Bethany R. Hood
  • Yovan de Coene
  • Ivan Lopez-Poves
  • Benoît Champagne
  • Koen Clays
  • John Fielden
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>14/02/2024
<mark>Journal</mark>Chemical Communications
Issue number13
Volume60
Number of pages4
Pages (from-to)1731-1734
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date11/01/24
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

New phenyl and stilbene-bridged polyoxometalate (POM) charge-transfer chromophores with diphenylamino donor groups produce, respectively, the highest intrinsic and absolute quadratic hyperpolarisabilities measured for such species. The β 0,zzz obtained for the phenyl bridge - at 180 × 10 −30 esu - is remarkable for a short conjugated system while changing to the stilbene (260 × 10 −30 esu) produces a substantial increase in non-linearity for a minimal red-shift in the absorption profile. Together with TD-DFT calculations, the results show that maximising conjugation in the π-bridge is vital to high performance in such “POMophores”.