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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 118, Issue 14, Pages 7545-7553Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp412204f
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- Wroclaw Center for Networking and Supercomputing [171]
- European Commission
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (Greece) for a National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) Project [PE3-(1612)]
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An azobenzene based iminopyridine ligand 1 has been synthesized by a condensation reaction between N,N-dimethyl-4,4'-azodianiline and 2-formylpyridine. The complexation of the ligand with ZnCl2 afforded a tetrahedral neutral zinc metal complex (2) formulated as [(Azo-Imino-Py)ZnCl2]. The crystal structure analysis of the complex indicates the formation of a tetracoordinated zinc(II) ion with the expected tetrahedral geometry. In solid state, a 2D supramolecular architecture reinforced by pi-pi stacking and hydrogen bonding is observed. The UV-visible spectrophotometric titration studies of the ligand, by increasing amount of ZnCl2, confirm the existence of single complex species in solution. The nonlinear optical (NLO) investigations by Z-scan technique of both ligand 1 and complex 2 indicate a dramatic enhancement of the NLO absorption of the ligand upon complexation with ZnCl2. This enhancement is likely to be due to a large dipole moment found for the complex 2 as calculated by DFT/B3LYP methodology.
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