- Title
- Synthesis, spectroscopic and nonlinear optical properties of metal-free and nickel β substituted binuclear phthalocyanines
- Creator
- Kabwe, Kapambwe Peter
- ThesisAdvisor
- Khene, Samson
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3013
- Identifier
- vital:20352
- Description
- In this project, nickel and metal-free 4β-(4-tert-butylphenoxy) phthalocyanine, biphenyl bridged binuclear 4-tert-butylphenoxy phthalocyanine and naphthalene bridged binuclear 4-tert-butylphenoxy phthalocyanine have been synthesised. The Z-scan technique has been employed to comparatively study their second order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. This work, shows that the presence of H-aggregation in binuclear Pcs of metal-free and nickel 4β-(4-tertbutylphenoxy) phthalocyanines do not have an effect on the magnitude of second order nonlinear absorption coefficient (β) as compared to monomeric Pcs. Density functional (DFT) calculations of dipolar/octupolar contributions were performed, in order to explain experimentally determined β values. Spectroscopic and photophysical properties of the synthesised compounds have been determined using a range of different spectroscopic techniques, including magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), time correlated single photon counting spectroscopy (TCSPC), UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy and IR Spectroscopy.
- Format
- 92 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Chemistry
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Kabwe, Kapambwe Peter
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