title: Studies of "pinwheel-like" bis[1,8,15,22-tetrakis(3-pentyloxy)phthalocyaninato] rare earth(III) double-decker complexes.
abstract: Homoleptic bis(phthalocyaninato) rare-earth double-deckers complexes [M(III)[Pc(alpha-OC5H11)4]2] (M = Eu, Y, Lu; Pc(alpha-OC5H11)4 = 1,8,15,22-tetrakis(3-pentyloxy)phthalocyaninate) have been prepared by treating the metal-free phthalocyanine H2Pc(alpha-OC5H11)4 with the corresponding M(acac)3.nH2O (acac = acetylacetonate) in refluxing n-octanol. Due to the C4h symmetry of the Pc(alpha-OC5H11)4 ligand and the double-decker structure, all the reactions give a mixture of two stereoisomers with C4h and D4 symmetry. The former isomer, which is a major product, can be partially separated by recrystallization due to its higher crystallinity. The molecular structure of the major isomer of the Y analogue has been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The metal center is eight-coordinate bound to the isoindole nitrogen atoms of the two phthalocyaninato ligands, forming a distorted square antiprism. Such an arrangement leads to an interesting pinwheel structure when viewed along the C4 axis, which assumes a very unusual S8 symmetry. The major isomers of all these double-deckers have also been characterized with a wide range of spectroscopic methods. A systematic investigation of their electronic absorption and electrochemical data reveals that the pi-pi interaction between the two Pc(alpha-OC5H11)4 rings is weaker than that for the corresponding unsubstituted or beta-substituted bis(phthalocyaninato) analogues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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