A comprehensive study of the supramolecular organization of floating layers and Langmuir–Schaefer films of the heteronuclear complex “phthalocyanine-O-subphthalocyanine” is reported. The molecular packing of the studied compound in monolayer structures on a water surface was simulated, and the unit-cell parameters of the monolayer were calculated. Using grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction, X-ray standing-wave technique, and Brewster angle microscopy data, it was shown that this compound forms stable and uniform X-ray amorphous layers with edge-on molecular packing at the air/water interface. The obtained results open the possibility of effectively using thin-film structures based on the obtained Langmuir layers in nanoelectronics.
Kazak et al. (Sun,) studied this question.