Desolvaton of Zinc(II)tetra-tert-butylphthalocyanine Crystal Solvates as Probed by Thermogravimetry

Abstract

Kinetic analysis of the thermal destruction of complexes of zinc(II)tetra-tert-butylphthalocyanine Zn(t-Bu)4Pc with organic solvent molecules has been carried out. For ligands having high ionization potentials, long refluxing of solution is required for preparing biligand complexes. For molecular ligands whose ionization potentials do not exceed 9.2 eV, the composition of complexes with Zn(t-Bu)4Pc is independent of the preparation parameters. The destruction of the Zn(t-Bu)4Pc complexes with n-propylamine, diethylaniline, piperidine (1: 1, cold synthesis), diethylamine, morpholine, quinoline, or cyclopentanone (1: 2, hot synthesis; 1: 2, cold synthesis) obeys fist-order equations; for complexes with pyridine, 1,4-dioxane, DMF, cyclopentanone (1: 1, hot synthesis), 3-dimethylaminopropionitrile, or piperidine (1: 2, hot synthesis), destruction obeys second-order equations. The activation energies of thermal destruction for the first group of molecular complexes fall in the range from 89 to 370 kJ/mol; the rate-controlling stage is nucleation and growth. For the second group, the activation energies fall in the range from 160 to 640 kJ/mol; the rate-controlling stage is a chemical reaction.