TY - JOUR AU1 - G.A. Baghaffar AU2 - A.M. Asiri AU3 - B.M. Babgi AU4 - M.S. Al‐Amoudi AB - Purpose – To discuss synthesis and evaluation of organo‐metallic chalcones as second‐order nonlinear optical (SONLO) materials. Design/methodology/approach – The new chalcones have been synthesised via Knovoenagel reactions of ferrocen carboxaldehyde with two active methylene compounds. Findings – The ferrocenyl chalcones prepared have shown bathochromic shift and thermal stability in polymeric film. On heating the dye films up to 80°C the extent of degradation reached up to 12 per cent and very small amount of degradation was observed at 43 and 60°C. Originality/value – The paper shows that these compounds have UV‐Vis bathochromic shift, enabling them to be used as SONLO materials in the blue domain as well as dyes. TI - Synthesis, characterisation and thermal stability of 2‐ferrocenylidene (1‐tetralone), 2‐ferrocenylideneindan‐1,3‐dione, diferrocenylidenecyclohexanone and diferrocenylidenecyclopentanone JF - Pigment & Resin Technology DO - 10.1108/03699420810860437 DA - 2008-03-21 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/synthesis-characterisation-and-thermal-stability-of-2-ferrocenylidene-fF0RAUM0UL SP - 87 EP - 92 VL - 37 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -