Organometallic complexes for nonlinear optics Part 18. Molecular quadratic and cubic hyperpolarizabilities of aryldiazovinylidene complexes

Abstract

The molecular quadratic and cubic optical nonlinearities of a series of aryldiazovinylidene complexes [Ru(C=CPhN=NAr)(PPh3)2(η-C5H 5)][X] [Ar = Ph (1), C6H4OMe-n (n = 2 (2), 3 (3), 4 (4)), C6H4NO2-4 (5), 3,5-C6H3(NO2)2 (6); X = BF4 (a), Cl (b), Br (c), I