Azulene-containing donor-acceptor compounds as second-order nonlinear chromophores

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 419-422

  Asato, Alfred E ^a   Liu, Robert S H ^a   Rao, V Pushkara ^b   Cai, Y M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Optical Materials Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZULENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0030045578     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-4039(95)02202-3     Document Type: Article

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