Andy Mclean posted a comment to my story of copper phthalocyanine (Monastral blue). The issue was its colour, and more specifically why this pigment has two peaks λmax 610 and 710nm making it blue. The first was accurately reproduced by calculation on the monomer, but the second was absent with such a model. Andy suggested this latter was due to stacking. Here, the calculated spectrum of a stacked dimer is explored.
The X-ray structure (above) shows layers of the phthalocyanine, dislocated so that the Cu of one unit aligns perfectly with a N of the units above and below the first one (Cu-N 3.28Å). This corresponds to the di-axially solvated system I explored in a comment appended to the original post. The TD-DFT calculated (since each unit is a doublet radical, the dimer was treated as a triplet state, this being much lower in energy than a singlet closed shell state) electronic spectrum for two units, stacked above each other as shown above reveals two transitions at ~ 600 and 620 nm. This is still some way away from reproducing the measured (solid state or solution spectra).In the mid to late 1990s as the Web developed, it was becoming more obvious…
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