Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of Phthalocyanine Based Carbon Materials

Abstract

A magnetic phthalocyanine based carbon material has been successfully synthesized by using a low energy process that employs highly chlorinated iron-phthalocyanine as building blocks and an alkali metal as a coupling reagent. The X-ray diffraction patterns and XPS spectrum for the reaction products suggest that they consist of amorphouscarbon material that contains uniformly dispersed iron ions. The iron phthalocyanine based carbon material exhibits ferromagnetic properties at room temperature and the ferromagnetic phase transition occurs at T C =490 K.