“…Typically the first step involves the formation of a coumarin-substituted phthalonitrile, usually by nucleophilic displacement of a nitro group in 3- or 4-nitrophthalonitrile, and the resulting phthalonitriles 56 are then converted into metallophthalocyanines 57 by cyclotetramerization in 2-(dimethylamino)ethanol in the presence of a metal salt. The coumarins and phthalonitriles used in many of these reactions, and the metals in the phthalocyanine complexes, are shown in Table 1 [ 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 ].…”