Recent advances in phthalocyanine-based functional molecular materials

Abstract

In this chapter, we wish to review the recent progress in the application of phthalocyanines as functional molecular materials including (1) semiconducting materials for organic photovoltaic cells and organic field effect transistors, (2) functional organic dyes as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy and dye-sensitized solar cells, and (3) single-molecule magnets. The structure-function relationship has been highlighted on the bases of selected examples since 2010, which hopefully will be informative for the future developments of phthalocyanine chemistry and related materials science.