Crystal Structures and Electronic Properties of Saddle-Distorted and Protonated Phthalocyanines
Crystal Structures and Electronic Properties of Saddle-Distorted and Protonated Phthalocyanines
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201006607
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Fukuzumi, Shunichi
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作者:
Honda, Tatsuhiko;Kojima, Takahiko;Fukuzumi, Shunichi
Phthalocyanines (Pcs) are one of the most developed heteromacrocycles, together with porphyrins, in particular as dyes and pigments. Recently, they have been utilized in a variety of applications such as photosensitizers, photovoltaic materials, and so on.[1, 2] However, the properties of protonated species resulting from the acid–base reaction have been little known because of their low basicity arising from the rigid structure of the phthalocyanine ring as compared with the porphyrin ring.[3, 4] In sharp contrast to the protonation of the porphyrin ring, which always occurs at pyrrole nitrogen atoms,[5, 6] phthalocyanines may undergo protonation at two different sites: the isoindole nitrogen atom and the mesonitrogen atom. To date, the protonation of phthalocyanines has been limited to overly acidic conditions such as in concentrated sulfuric acid and in trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) because of the small formation constants of protonated species.[3] Moreover, there have been no reports on either the detection of inner protonation at the isoindole nitrogen atom or of the crystal structure determination of protonated phthalocyanines.We previously investigated the formation of supramolecular assemblies based on the protonation of saddle-distorted dodecaphenylporphyrin (H2DPP), which has high basicity derived from the lone pairs of pyrrole nitrogen atoms.[6] We have also reported on the free base and the metal complex of