Chemia Analityczna Volume 46, Number 6
(November - December 2001)

Spectrophotometric Determination of Phthalocyanines
Part II. Phthalocyanines Stable in Concentrated Sulphuric Acid

by Rudolf Slota, Gabriela Dyrda and Witold Waclawek

Institute of Chemistry, University of Opole,48 Oleska Street, 45-095 Opole, Poland


Key words: phthalocyanine, metal phthalocyanines, VIS spectral analysis

The work was done to show the usefulness of VIS spectroscopy in quantitative studies of different phthalocyanine compounds. In particular, it was focused on unsubstituted metal phthalocyanines commonly believed to be stable in concentrated sulfuric acid. As a result, a simple spectral analytical method (VIS), which is a n extention of the one previously presented  has been proposed for the determination of a number of d - electron metal phthalocyanines, Mpc (where M = Cu, Co, Ni, Zn and pc is the phthalocyanine ligand (C32H16N8)2- . Statistical evaluation of the results obtained in the control tests have proved the described method to be useful both in industrial and scientific research applications.



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