Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of Phthalocyanine–Fullerene Hybrids

Abstract

Phthalocyanines linked to C60 have been synthesized by two general strategies. One of them involves the addition of an azomethine ylide prepared in situ from a formyl phthalocyanine to C60, and the other one involves a statistical condensation of two substituted phthalonitriles, one of them bearing the C60 moiety covalently attached. These new phthalocyanine-fullerene dyads have been studied by cyclic voltammetry and Osteryoung square wave voltammetry, and inter- and intramolecular electronic interactions between the two electroactive subunits have been demonstrated.