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Mark Fischler

What is best organic solvent to dissolve iron phthalocyanine?

Dinky Dao  Follow

Did you try THF

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Doctor Lee  Follow

 Dear Aub alwafa
if Iron phthalocyanine can be dissolve in water,why you are looking for the organic solvent,used water it is better.it is cheap,available and it has no side effects.
Prof.Fadlelmoula A.Idris

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Data Val  Follow

Beside it is very interesting that your phthalocyanine is water soluble, you can use Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) or Dimethylformamide (DMF) to solve.

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Daryl Larsen  Follow

FePc does not dissolve in Water.
Recently, I have tried to dissolve it in ethylene glycol and it dissolved at low concentration with heating.

Good Luck!


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Dean Moncaster  Follow

Check the paper attached. The authors have performed a proper study of different metal-phthalocyanines in a variety of solvents and their solubility, among other things.
Sigma Aldrich has iron-phthalocyanine solutions available, but their website is currently down.
Hope this can get you started, while someone knowledgeable in this field can provide you with a better/definitive answer.
Added later: Sigma Aldrich DOES NOT have solutions; I was wrong. Their website is now up and running, and I presume what they sell is a solid (1g or 10g).

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Andrew Jackson  Follow

Hi
Beside, the intersted paper provided by Sudarsan VenkatRamani, please, find in attach another intersting paper in Syntheses and Functional Properties of Phthalocyanines by Keiichi Sakamoto and Eiko Ohno-Okumura, Materials 2009, 2, 1127-1179; doi:10.3390/ma2031127

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David Kra  Follow

DMF is quite good solvent you may use it to dissolve your phthalocyanine.

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Derrick S.  Follow

Dissolution of phthalocyanine macrocycles depend on the functional groups or position of the substituents on the phthalocyanines. You can try THF, chloroform or dichloromethane etc.

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Christian Acevedo  Follow

Based on phtalocyanine structue, dichloromethane,DMF,chloroform  can used as solvent,moreover addition of little amount of HCL(1N)would  be useful.

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