Vapor pressure measurements and thermodynamics of some volatile phthalocyanines

Mass spectrometric studies of the composition of the gaseous phase for solid compounds of hexadecafluorinated phthalocyanines MPcF 16, M = Cu , Zn , VO and their unsubstituted MPc analogs were performed in a temperature range up to 600°C. It has been shown that phthalocyanines sublime into the form of monomers without thermal decomposition. The vapor pressure of these phthalocyanines was determined as a function of temperature by the Knudsen effusion method, in which the rate of effusion of the equilibrium vapor through a small orifice was measured. The thermodynamic parameters of the sublimation process for phthalocyanines were calculated.