Volume 20, Issue 11 pp. 1235-1240
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Bis(4,4′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine) ruthenium (II) Complexes Containing 2-Arylimidazo- [4,5-f] [1,10] phenanthroline: Syntheses, Characterization and Third-order Nonlinear Optical Properties

Hui Chao

Hui Chao

a State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies/Department of Chemistry, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China

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Run-Hua Li

Run-Hua Li

a State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies/Department of Chemistry, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China

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Qi-Wen Huang

Qi-Wen Huang

a State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies/Department of Chemistry, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China

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Liang-Nian Ji

Liang-Nian Ji

a State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies/Department of Chemistry, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China

State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

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First published: 26 August 2010
Citations: 3

Abstract

Four novel mononuclear ruthenium(II) complexes [Ru(dmb)2L]2+ [dmb = 4,4′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine, L = imidazo-[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline (IP), 2-phenylimidazo-[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline (PIP), 2-(4′-hydroxyphenyl)imidazo-[4,5-f] [1,10] phenanthroline (HOP), 2-(4′-dimethylaminophenyl) imidazo-[4, 5-f] [1,10] phenanthroline (DMNP)] were synthesized and characterized by ES-MS, 1H NMR, UV-vis and electrochemistry. The nonlinear optical properties of the ruthenium(II) complexes were investigated by Z-scan techniques with 12 ns laser pulse at 540 nm, and all of them exhibit both nonlinear optical (NLO) absorption and self-defocusing effect. The corresponding effective NLO susceptibility |x3| of the complexes is in the range of 2.68 × 10−12-4.57 × 10−12 esu.

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