Merocyanine Dyes in the Cyanine Limit: A New Class of Chromophores for Photorefractive Materials

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 2765-2768

  Würthner, Frank ^a   Wortmann, Rüdiger ^b   Matschiner, Ralf ^b   Lukaszuk, Katarzyna ^b   Meerholz, Klaus ^c   DeNardin, Yessika ^c   Bittner, Reinhard ^c   Bräuchle, Christoph ^c   Sens, Rüdiger ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromophores; Cyanines; Donor acceptor systems; Holography; Photorefractive materials

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032491813     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199727651     Document Type: Article

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