The synthesis, photophysical and dielectric properties of ball-type dinuclear zinc phthalocyanine

The synthesis of ball-type dinuclear Zn(II) phthalocyanine containing four 4,4′-(9H-fluorene-9,9-diyl)diphenol substituents at the non-peripheral position is presented. The structure of the synthesized compound was characterized using elemental analyzes, and UV-vis, FT-IR, H NMR and mass spectroscopies. The FF value was 0.16 and FT value was 0.72. The complex showed reasonably long triplet lifetimes with tT 7210 ms in DMSO. The frequency and temperature dependence of the dielectric properties of ZnPc were also investigated in the frequency range of 40–10 Hz and in the temperature range of 300–440 °K. It has been observed that both dielectric constant e′ and dielectric loss e′′ decrease with the rise in frequency as they increase with the rise in temperature. The decrease in e′ with increasing frequency is attributed to the fact that as the frequency increases, the polarizability contribution from orientation sources decreases and finally disappears.