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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1996
Ying-Syi Li, Shaker Hts., OH (US);
Malcolm E Kenney, Cleveland Hts., OH (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention provides improved methods for synthesizing phthalocyanines, particularly HOSiPcOSi(CH.sub.3).sub.2 (CH.sub.2).sub.3 N(CH.sub.3).sub.2, which do not involve photolysis, and which produces purity of at least about 95%, and in the preferred embodiment of the first method of synthesis provide a yield of greater than about 70% and typically greater than 80%. The first method involves a method for synthesizing a phthalocyanine compound comprising the following steps: providing a phthalocyanine precursor having a central silicon; adding a first aminosiloxy ligand to the central silicon of the phthalocyanine precursor; adding a second aminosiloxy ligand to the central silicon of the phthalocyanine precursor; displacing the second aminosiloxy ligand by an organic acid ligand, preferably Cl.sub.3 CCOO ligand; then displacing the Cl.sub.3 CCOO ligand with an HO ligand. The second method for making Pc4 is a method for synthesizing a phthalocyanine compound comprising the following steps: providing a phthalocyanine precursor having a central silicon; providing a siloxy ligand with an iodo group; adding a first and second siloxyiodo ligand to the central silicon of the phthalocyanine precursor; displacing the second siloxyiodo ligand by an organic acid, preferably a Cl.sub.3 CCOO ligand; then displacing the a Cl.sub.3 CCOO ligand with an HO ligand; and then displacing the iodo group with a dimethylamino group.