Heterometallic copper(II) vanadates: synthesis, crystal structures and third-order nonlinear optical properties

Three polymeric heterometallic clusters with 1D, 2D, and 3D frameworks, constructed from a cyclic vanadate {V4O12}4− building block and three geometric constraint ligands, were synthesized by a one-pot self-assembly reaction. Z-scan experiments demonstrated that all the three cluster polymers have large hyperpolarizability γ values. TD-DFT calculations afforded insight into the electronic transitions and spectral characterization of these novel NLO molecular materials.