X-Ray crystal structure of a conducting polymer precursor: bridge-stacked phthalocyanine gallium fluoride

Abstract

Phthalocyanine gallium fluoride has a structure in which Ga achieves octahedral co-ordination through bonding to four phthalocyanine (pc) nitrogen atoms and equidistant trans fluorine atoms; the latter act to link together the Ga(pc) moieties in a cofacially bridge-stacked arrangement.