Multiring phthalocyanine compounds
AssigneeEdison Polymer Innovation Corporation
InventorsDaniel A. Batzel, Scott E. Rickert, Malcolm E. Kenney
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Abstract
Compounds are disclosed which comprise parallel, multiring, porphyrin-related compounds, particularly two-ring phthalocyanine compounds, which have a coordinating atom, either a metal or a metalloid, located at their center. The coordinating atoms in adjacent rings are connected by an oxygen bridge along an axial backbone disposed at right angles to the rings, and the coordinating atom and the ring on one end of the axis has a hydrophilic group attached thereto, while the coordinating atom in the ring at the other end of the axis has a hydrophobic group attached to it. Semiconducting films made from such compounds and devices made from such films, especially gas sensors, are also disclosed.
Claims10
A multiring compound containing from 2 to about 10 rings in which a plurality of adjacent, parallel porphyrin-related rings each selected from the group consisting of porphyrin, substituted porphyrin, phthalocyanine and substituted phthalocyanine rings and having a coordinating atom which is a metal or a metalloid atom located at the center of said rings, are interconnected along an axis perpendicular to the surface of said rings and passing through the center thereof, by means of an oxygen atom located along said axis, said oxygen atom connecting the coordinating atoms in adjacent rings, and in which the outermost ring at a first end of said axis has a hydrophilic group attached to the coordinating atom thereof, while the outermost ring at the other end of said axis has a hydrophobic group attached to the coordinating atom thereof.
A two-ring phthalocyanine compound in which two adjacent, parallel phthalocyanine rings having a coordinating atom which is a metal or a metalloid atom located at the center of said rings, are interconnected along an axis perpendicular to the surface of said rings and passing through the center thereof, by means of an oxygen atom connecting said coordinating atoms, and in which one of said rings has a hydrophilic group attached to the coordinating atom thereof, while the other of said rings has a hydrophobic group attached to the coordinating atom thereof.
A multiring compound containing from 2 to about 10 adjacent, parallel phthalocyanine rings, each having a coordinating atom selected from the group consisting of silicon and germanium located at the center of said ring, wherein said rings are interconnected along an axis perpendicular to the surface of said ring and passing through the center thereof, by means of an oxygen atom located along said axis, said oxygen atom connecting the coordinating atoms in adjacent rings, and in which the outermost ring at a first end of said axis has a hydrophilic group attached to the coordinating atom thereof, while the outermost ring at the other end of said axis has a hydrophobic group attached to the coordinating atom thereof.
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