Synthesis of water soluble porphyrin and phthalocyanine derivatives with, respectively, eight and sixteen galactose units has been carried out. The combined preliminary photophysical and photochemical features of the new products suggest that they might be promising photodynamic therapeutic agents.

Soluble copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) and naphthalocyanine (CuNc) precursors which can be converted thermally and photochemically into insoluble CuPc and CuNc, respectively, have been synthesized by a one-step reaction using commercially available chemicals.

Ordered thin films based on alternate assembly of zinc phthalocyanine complex and layered double hydroxide monolayers have been fabricated, which exhibit multiple quantum well structure and well-defined polarized luminescence.

A stable mu-nitrido diiron phthalocyanine activates H2O2 to oxidize CH4 in water at 25-60 degrees C to methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid as evidenced using 13C and 18O labelling.

Soluble precursors of 2,3-naphthalocyanine (Nc) and phthalocyanine (Pc) were prepared and were converted into insoluble semiconducting thin films of Pc and Nc by heating after fabrication via spin-coating.

A practical, clean, single step oxidative modification of polysaccharides by H(2)O(2) catalysed by water soluble iron phthalocyanine, exemplified with starch, allows quantitative preparation of a range of tailor made materials without producing any waste.

The role of vascular permeability in the preferential accumulation of photosensitizers in tumor tissue was investigated. Two murine tumors [experimental mammary tumor carcinoma (EMT-6) and methylcholanthrene-induced rhabdomyosarcoma (M1S)] and a human bladder carcinoma (EJ) were grown s.c. on the flank in athymic nude mice and analyzed for in vivo vessel permeability, vascular permeability fact...

The experimental determination of formation constant for interaction of two water soluble phthalocyanines, Cobalt (II) 4,4',4",4'"-tetrasulpho phthalocyanine (CoTsPc ) and Manganese(II) 4,4',4",4"-tetrasulpho phthalocyanine (MnTsPc ) , with calf thymus DNA have been studied by UV-Vis spectrophotometric method at lrnM phosphate buffer , pH 7.4 and at 5 different temperatures 20,25,30,35 and 400 ...

The photophysical properties of a newly synthesized unsymmetrically substituted zinc phthalocyanine derivative (1) bearing in its peripheral positions six n-hexylsulfanyl substituents and one amino-terminated n-hexylsulfanyl substituent were investigated. This mono-amino phthalocyanine exhibited a high tendency to form H-type aggregates in all of the investigated solvents: dichloromethane (DCM)...

Mixed Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films of dissimilar components, arachidic acid and a phthalocyanine of zinc, have been investigated. These compounds form mixed films with phase separation, with domains at the sub-micro scale which are detected by AFM in LB films but not observed by BAM. These domains present different contrast in the surface potential images obtained with SP-AFM and in the...