Switching the cubic nonlinear optical properties of an electro-, halo-, and photochromic ruthenium alkynyl complex across six states

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 48, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 7867-7870

  Green, Katy A ^a   Cifuentes, Marie P ^a   Corkery, T Christopher ^a   Samoc, Marek ^b   Humphrey, Mark G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alkynyl complexes; Molecular devices; Nonlinear absorption; Nonlinear optics; Organometallics

Indexed keywords

ALKYNYL COMPLEXES; ALKYNYL LIGANDS; CUBIC NONLINEARITIES; MOLECULAR DEVICES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION; RING OPENING; VINYLIDENE LIGANDS;

ABSORPTION; LIGANDS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 70349675504     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200903027     Document Type: Article

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