Design of Non-Linear Optical Materials Based on Co-ordination and Organometallic Compounds.

摘要

The aim of this research project was to design coordination and organometallic compounds which exhibit non-linear optical properties. The synthesis of pentadionatoand catecholato- complexes was achieved and their second harmonic generation properties evaluated. A related program on icosahedral carboranes has resulted in a wide range of dipolar molecules whose second harmonic generation properties have been measured both in the solid state and in solution. The latter are most promising and suggest that under the appropriate packing conditions they could show large SHG effects. Recent results in the microwave processing of materials and in the area of molecular packing are also described. non-linear optics, organometallic compounds, boranes, carboranes.