Includes bibliographical references. / 3 v. : / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Details research carried out into the nonlinear optical properties of metal alkynyls, chiefly organoruthenium complexes, showing that these complexes can be designed to have very large NLO coefficients. Also demonstrates the utility of spectroscopic, electrochemical and copmutational aids as predictive tools for NLO materials. Also examines cluster synthesis, reactivity and physical properties using ruthenium clusters and hard-donor ligands, affording a series of cluster complrxes that provide structural models for industrially-important hydrotreating intermediates. / Thesis (D.Sc.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Chemistry, 2003
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/264225 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Humphrey, Mark Graeme. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
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