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An original method based on metal-free ligand and lanthanide acetate direct
interaction in the presence of a strong organic base (DBU) is used to prep
are sandwich-type gadolinium and ytterbium crown-ether substituted phthaloc
yanines bis[4,5,4',5',4 ",5 ",4''',5'''-tetrakis(1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxatridec
amethylene)phthalocyaninato]gadolinium (ytterbium) and tris[4,5,4',5',4 ",5
",4''',5'''-tetrakis(1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxatridecamethylene)phthalocyaninato
]digadolinium (ytterbium) which are characterized by MALDI-TOF mass spectro
metry and UV-vis spectroscopy. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.