| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L56213/01 |
| Title: |
SYNTHESIS OF RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES FOR NONLINEAR OPTICS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Coe, Dr BJ |
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Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
Victoria University of Manchester, The |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1998 |
Ends: |
30 September 2001 |
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90,441
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Chemical Synthetic Methodology |
Optical Phenomena |
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The proposed research is designed to improve understanding of NLO-active organotransition metal complexes. Such studies are timely because metal complexes have been largely overlooked as NLO materials, despite holding great promise. In particular, very few measurements of quadratic hyperpolarizabilities, and especially for families of related complexes, have been reported. This work is of fundamental academic interest, but also has important implications for future applications in opto-electronic devices. The relationships between NLO properties and MLCT or IVCT excitations will be studied in detail, using the recently introduced hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) technique to obtain molecular quadratic hyperpolarizabilities. Trans tetraammine Ru (II) complexes were chosen because they combine synthetic accessibility and structural versatility with appropriate, tuneable redox and spectroscopic properties. They hence possess great scope for the optimisation of hyperpolarizabilities, for the reversible modulation of molecular NLO properties via the Ru(III/II) redox couple.
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