The important role of heteroaromatics in the design of efficient second-order nonlinear optical molecules: Theoretical investigation on push-pull heteroaromatic stilbenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 118, Issue 49, 1996, Pages 12443-12448

  Varanasi, Pushkara Rao ^a,c   Jen, Alex K Y ^a   Chandrasekhar, J ^b   Namboothiri, I N N ^b   Rathna, A ^b  

^a Optical Materials Division   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; STILBENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THEORY;

EID: 0001338639     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja960136q     Document Type: Article

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