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Chem Commun (Camb). 2001 Sep 21;(18):1744-5. doi: 10.1039/b102876f.

Enhancement of a two-photon absorption cross section (TPACS)--design and synthesis of a novel class of photochromic molecules with large TPACS.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

G L Pan, M G Fan, P Fan, H Z Wang, Z C Wei

Affiliations

  1. Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 12240294 DOI: 10.1039/b102876f

Abstract

Two novel photochromic compounds were designed and synthesized; the two-photon absorption (TPA) cross section of both were measured with a nanosecond laser pulse; their TPACS (delta) values are around 25 x 10(-46) cm4 s photon-1 molecule-1 in acetonitrile; the molecular structure of the target compounds have a 3-methyl-1-benzothiophen-2-yl moiety, which can greatly enhance the two-photon absorption cross section.

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