Synthesis, photophysical and electrochemical characterization of phthalocyanine-based poly(p-phenylenevinylene) oligomers.

The synthesis of two poly(p-phenylenevinylene) oligomers (oPPV) laterally substituted by phthalocyanines (Pc) is described. The preparation of Pc-based oligomers and was accomplished by means of Knoevenagel and Wadsworth-Horner-Emmons reactions, respectively. Diformylphthalocyanine was employed as a monomer in these reactions, thus providing functionalised conjugated oligomers upon reaction with the corresponding co-monomers, and . Photophysical and electrochemical experiments have been carried out with both oligomeric derivatives, revealing excited state interactions such as transduction of singlet excited state energy.