Structure of the blue forms of bisphthalocyanines of rare-earth elements

Using electron spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and ESR spectroscopy, the blue forms of bisphthalocyanines of rare-earth elements were found to have structures of sandwich-type complexes with isoelectronic phthalocyanine ligands linked with tetravalent metal ions, Pc^2–Ln⁴⁺Pc^2–]⁰. A comparative spectral and electrochemical study of the blue and green forms oftert-butyl-substituted bisphthalocyanines was carried out for almost the whole series of rare-earth metals. Lutetium octa(perfluoro-tert-butyl)- and perchlorobisphthalocyanines were synthesized for the first time.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 425–430, March, 1995.This study was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 94-03-08903).