Abstract

Many organic materials have nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. The incorporation of functional amines has been shown to increase such properties in specific organic materials. The addition of a metal fragment to NLO materials has helped to increase their NLO properties. Several amines were chosen to be added to the 2-chloro-6-nitrolepidine to help in the increase of NLO properties in some cases. The addition of a metal fragment to the quinolinamine was planned but never attempted. Several difficulties arose during the synthesis of these organometallic compounds. Some of these problems were worked out and the first two steps of the quinolinamine synthesis were completed successfully. The addition of an amine was never successful and because of this the addition of a metal fragment could not be attempted. From this research, many of the problems that occurred in previous experiments were corrected, so future research into the NLO properties of similar organometallic materials should proceed with little hindrance.