Phthalocyanine fluorescence spectra

In 1988, the distance dependence of surface-enhanced fluorescence was studied for Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers deposited on silver island films. This study was inspired in part by two earlier reports that examined the distance dependence of SERS of LB films on metal surfaces. Varying numbers of spacer layers of arachidic acid were employed in order to probe the competition between EM enhancement and radiationless energy transfer for a phthalocyanine monolayer. In direct contact with the metal surface, a broadened, enhanced, and red-shifted fluorescence spectrum was observed. These spectral changes can be attributed to a drastic decrease in the fluorescence lifetime of the molecule when it is placed in contact with the metal surface. However, an enhanced version of the unperturbed spectrum was observed when intervening spacer layers were introduced. It was found at enhancements on the order of about 400 could be realized when S monolayers were placed between the Ag island film and the phthalocyanine monolayer. 

The first, and still the most commonly used, of the tunable lasers were those based upon solutions of organic dyes. The first dye laser was developed by Sorokin and Lankard 05), and used a "chloro-aluminum phthalocyanine" (sic) solution. Tunable dye lasers operating throughout the visible spectrum were soon produced, using dyes such as coumarins, fluorescein, rhodamines, etc. Each dye will emit laser radiation which is continuously tunable over approximately the fluorescence wavelength range of the dye. 

Perylenediimides represent another class of photoactive dyes which are characterized by their strong fluorescence emission and facile electrochemical reduction. Recently, a supramolecular bis(phthalocyanine)-perylenediimide hetero-triad (compound 42) has been assembled through axial coordination [47]. Treatment of perylenediimide 43, which has two 4-pyridyl substituents at the imido positions, with 2.5 equiv. of ruthenium(II) phthalocyanine 44 in chloroform affords 42 in 68% yield (Scheme 3). This array shows remarkable stability in solution due to the robustness of the ruthenium-pyridyl bond. Its electronic absorption spectrum is essentially the sum of the spectra of its molecular components 43 and 44 in... 

Well over 90% of all samples examined by FT-Raman spectroscopy with 1064-nm excitation yield an identifiable spectrum. For those samples that still fluoresce, longer-wavelength lines are available. For example, Asselin and Chase [4] have demonstrated that the spectrum of copper phthalocyanine can be measured with the 1339-nm line of Nd YAG (see Figure 18.4), while the spectram of this compound is swamped by fluorescence when the 1064-nm line of this laser is used, as shown in Figure 18.5. Because of the longer wavelength of this laser and the response characteristics of the germanium detector, however, the spectmm could only be measured to a Raman shift of 1800 cm. ... 

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