Adsorption of VOC vapors on ZnPc: sensing and kinetic studies.

Thin film of sensing unit, 2,3,9,10,16,17-hexakis(3-dietylaminophenoxy)-23-etynylphenyl-(2-ferrocenyl-o-carborane)phthalocyaninato zinc(II) (ZnPc), have been deposited by spray pyrolysis technique on the quartz crystal surface with a fundamental resonance frequency of 10 MHz. The surface morphology of the film has been studied using the contact mode atomic force microscope (AFM) technique and the average surface roughness was determined to be 36.4 nm.

The effects of substituent position on kinetics of benzene vapour adsorption onto 3-phenylphenoxy substituted metal-free and metallo-phthalocyanines thin films.

The preparation of metal-free, Zn(ii), In(iii), and Cu(ii)-phthalocyanines containing tetrakis-(3-phenylphenoxy) groups was achieved by employing 3-(3-phenylphenoxy)phthalonitrile (1) and 4-(3-phenylphenoxy)phthalonitrile (2) as starting materials. The phthalonitriles and phthalocyanines were characterized by elemental analysis, infrared, proton nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet-visible, and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectroscopic techniques. The effect of the substituent group on the kinetics of benzene vapour adsorption onto these novel compounds was examined using three kinetics models: the pseudo first-order model, the Elovich equation, and a simple adsorption-desorption model.