Abstract
Abstract Donor-acceptor polyenes and carotenoids of defined and increasing length, bearing electron-donating ferrocene or julolidine moieties, and formyl or dicyanovinyl electron-withdrawing end groups have been prepared in order to achieve enhanced quadratic optical nonlinearities. The variation of their quadratic hyperpolarizability β in solution was investigated using the electric field induced second harmonic (EFISH) generation technique, and was compared to the behavior of two series of soluble push-pull diphenylpolyenes. The chainlength behavior for each series of homologous compounds can be modeled by μs(0) = kna relationships with respect to the number n of double bonds in the polyenic chain, the exponent value a depending markedly on the end groups. Steeper increases were observed with the ferrocene donor moiety as compared to the strong julolidine donor group, and with the stronger dicyanovinyl acceptor (a = 2.4 and 1.45), as compared to the weak formyl acceptor (a = 1.6 and 1.3). In contrast, the series of push-pull diphenylpolyenes display the weakest dependencies, and show very little influence of the terminal acceptor substituents on the length behavior (a ≈ 1).
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