New push-pull NLO-phores based on lanthanide complexes (Ln = La, Gd, Dy, Yb) featuring an annelated dibutylaminophenyl functionalised terpyridyl ligand have been synthesised and shown to exhibit large first-order hyperpolarizability.
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Sénéchal et al. (2004) studied this question.