Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.54, No.22, 10568-10575, 2015
Beyond Single-Wavelength SHG Measurements: Spectrally-Resolved SHG Studies of Tetraphosphonate Ester Coordination Polymers
Powder second-harmonic generation (SHG) efficiencies are usually measured at single wavelengths. In the present work, we provide a proof of concept of spectrally resolved powder SHG measured for a newly obtained series of three non-centrosymmetric coordination polymers (CPs). CPs are constructed from tetrahedral linker tetraphenylmethane-based tetraphosphonate octaethyl ester and cobalt(II) ions of mixed, octahedral (O-h), and tetrahedral (T-d), geometries and different sets of donors (CoO6 vs CoX3O). Isostructurality of the obtained materials allowed for the determination of anion-dependent tunability of SHG optical spectra and their relationship with solid-state absorption spectra.