“…[10Ϫ12] Another approach, which is less developed, involves the preparation of noncentrosymmetrical phthalocyanine analogues, formally obtained by the substitution of one isoindole subunit in a phthalocyanine by another conjugated heterocyclic moiety. [4,13] As a consequence of our interest in the synthesis of noncentrosymmetrical phthalocyanines with high second-order nonlinear optical responses, we prepared, for the first time, the so-called ''triazolephthalocyanine'' (Tpc), [14] a phthalocyanine analogue in which one 1,2,4-triazole subunit has formally replaced an isoindole subunit of the phthalocyanine core. These unsymmetrical macrocycles display important second-and third-order nonlinear optical properties in solution, [15] and high thermal stability, [16] similar and even higher to those shown by phthalocyanines.…”