Dipolar Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Chromophores Containing Ferrocene, Octamethylferrocene, and Ruthenocene Donors and Strong π-Acceptors: Crystal Structures and Comparison of π-Donor Strengths.
Dipolar Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Chromophores Containing Ferrocene, Octamethylferrocene, and Ruthenocene Donors and Strong π-Acceptors: Crystal Structures and Comparison of π-Donor Strengths.
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含有二茂铁、八甲基二茂铁和钌茂供体和强α-受体的偶极二阶非线性光学发色团:晶体结构和α-供体强度比较。
DOI:
10.1021/om800986s
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发表时间:
2009
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2.8
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Barlow,Stephen
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Kinnibrugh,TiffanyL;Salman,Seyhan;Getmanenko,YuliaA;Coropceanu,Veaceslav;Porter3rd,WilliamW;Timofeeva,TatianaV;Matzger,AdamJ;Brédas,Jean-Luc;Marder,SethR;Barlow,Stephen
Crystal structures have been determined for six dipolar polyene chromophores with metallocenylferrocenyl (Fc), octamethylferrocenyl (Fc′′), or ruthenocenyl (Rc)donors and strong heterocyclic acceptors based on 1,3-diethyl-2-thiobarbituric acid or 3-dicyanomethylidene-2,3-dihydrobenzothiophene-1,1-dioxide. In each case, crystals were found to belong to centrosymmetric space groups. For one example, polymer-induced heteronucleation revealed the existence of two additional forms, which were inactive in second-harmonic generation, suggesting that they were also centrosymmetric. The bond-length alternations between the formally double and single bonds of the polyene bridges are reduced compared to simple polyenes, indicating significant contribution from charge-separated resonance structures, although the metallocenes are not significantly distorted toward the [(η6-fulvene)(η5-cyclopentadienyl)metal(II)]+extreme. DFT geometries are in excellent agreement with those determined crystallographically; while the π-donor strengths of the three metallocenyl groups are insufficiently different to result in detectable differences in the crystallographic bond-length alternations, the DFT geometries, as well as DFT calculations of partial charges for atoms, suggest that π-donor strength decreases in the order Fc′′ ≫ Fc > Rc. NMR, IR, and electrochemical evidence also suggests that octamethylferrocenyl is the stronger π-donor, exhibiting similar π-donor strength to ap-(dialkylamino)phenyl group, while ferrocenyl and ruthenocenyl show very similar π-donor strengths to one another in chromophores of this type.