“…Novel metal-free phthalocyanines containing four 19-membered dithiadiazadioxa macrocycles show split Q bands at 707 and 689 nm and B bands at 334 and 281 nm [54], which correspond to the calculated electronic absorption bands of 6 at 612 and 600 nm and 329 and 292 nm, respectively. The calculated electronic absorption spectra of 6 can also find analogs in the recorded electronic absorption spectra of the symmetrically tetrasubstituted metal-free phthalocyanine with four 14-membered dioxadithia macrocycles, each of which is attached to a 15-membered crown ether, at 708 and 641 and 292 nm [55]. The calculated electronic absorption bands at 321, 362, 402, 471, 638, and 644 nm in the electronic absorption spectrum of 8 are similar to the observed bands at 296, 326, 368, 449, 656, and 707 nm for the metal-free phthalocyanine containing four 27-membered diazaheptathia macrocyclic moieties on the peripheral positions [56], respectively, and can also correspond with the absorption bands of the metal-free phthalocyanine containing four 18-membered tetrathiadiaza macrocycles moieties on the peripheral positions [57] and the metal-free phthalocyanine bearing eight 16-membered tetrathiamonoaza macrocycles in the peripheral positions [58].…”