Synthesis and Study of the Physicochemical Properties of a Hybrid Species: Iron Phthalocyanine–Silver Nanoparticles

Abstract

This article reports a strategy to synthesize a hybrid species made of iron phthalocyanine (FePc) grafted to the surface of silver nanoparticles. The affinity between sulfur and silver on the one hand, and the aptitude of the FePc complex to bind pyridine axially on the other, allowed us to use thiopyridine as a linker between the two entities. The hybrid species, isolated in the solid form for the first time, has been characterized by optical and vibrational spectroscopy, and by transmission electron microscopy. These studies confirm the good aptitude of the linker to connect the FePc to the silver nanoparticles.