Synthesis and characterization of sandwich-type gadolinium and ytterbium crown ether-substituted phthalocyanines

An original method based on metal-free ligand and lanthanide acetate direct interaction in the presence of a strong organic base (DBU) is used to prepare sandwich-type gadolinium and ytterbium crown-ether substituted phthalocyanines bis[4,5,4′,5′,4″,5″,4‴,5‴-tetrakis(1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxatridecamethylene)phthalocyaninato]gadolinium (ytterbium) and tris[4,5,4′,5′,4″,5″,4‴-,5‴-tetrakis(1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxatridecamethylene)phthalocyaninato]digadolinium (ytterbium) which are characterized by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and UV-vis spectroscopy.