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The synthesis, and spectroscopic and magnetic properties of quadruple-decker phthalocyanines (Pcs) have been reviewed. While the presence of stacked mercury Pc oligomers was proposed as early as 1992, the isolation of a quadruple-decker Pc was first achieved in 2010. Herein, we review how the synthetic strategy for quadruple-decker Pcs has come to be conceived from the recent development of cadmium Pc oligomers, which will be followed by illustration of unique physicochemical properties originating from the structure of the quadruple-decker frameworks. In the spectroscopy section, the electronic structures of the quadruple-decker Pc are discussed based on the theoretical and experimental results. A simple molecular orbital (MO) method predicts that energy gaps among the occupied frontier MOs of the quadruple-decker Pc become smaller than those of double- or triple-decker Pcs, leading to the observation of exceptionally low-lying electronic transitions for the oxidized quadruple-decker Pcs. It has been confirmed that the corresponding lowest π–π* electronic transitions reach the infrared region for the one-electron oxidized quadruple-decker Pcs. In the magnetic property section, a clear evidence of the long-range magnetic dipole–dipole f–f interactions between two f-electronic centers of diterbium quadruple-decker Pc is provided, and its magnetic relaxation phenomena arising mainly from quantum tunneling magnetizations (QTMs) will be discussed by using the alternate current (ac) magnetic susceptibility data, and the numerically calculated Zeeman diagram of the f-electronic centers in the quadruple-decker Pc.

We introduce some representative studies from our laboratory, mostly from the 21st Century. We are interested in the synthesis, optical spectroscopy, such as magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), circ...

The synthesis, and spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of hydrogenated tetraazaporphyrins (TAPs), namely tetraazachlorins (TACs), tetraazabacteriochlorins (TABCs) and tetraazaisobacteriochlorins (TAiBCs), have been reviewed. While the first synthesis of this type of hydrogenated aromatic macrocycle was achieved as early as 1958 by Linstead et al. (G. E. Ficken, R. P. Linstead, E. Stephen and M. Whalley, J. Chem. Soc., 1958, 3879), the development of modern synthetic strategies enables us to isolate stable forms of the hydrogenated TAP derivatives. Benzo-, 2,3-naphtho- and 1,2-naphtho-fused derivatives were synthesized extensively, and all structural isomers have been elucidated. The chemical structures have been characterized using a variety of techniques, including mass spectrometry, 1H and 13C NMR, X-ray crystallography and IR spectroscopy. The spectroscopic properties (e.g., electronic absorption, magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), and fluorescence) of these compounds differ significantly from those of the original TAPs, or phthalocyanines (Pcs), due to the symmetry-lowering effects of the core aromatic macrocycles. The experimentally observed properties have been rationalized on the basis of electrochemical studies and quantum chemical calculations. As an application of the TAC skeleton, the synthesis and electronic structures of tribenzo TAC (TBTAC)-C60 conjugates, in which both components are covalently connected directly and thus show remarkable molecular orbital (MO) mixing between the constituting moieties, have also been reviewed.