Nuclear magnetic resonance thermosensing properties of holmium(III) and thulium(III) tris(tetra-15-crown-5-phthalocyaninato) complexes

Temperature dependences of paramagnetic chemical shifts in NMR spectra of lanthanide tris-phthalocyaninates Ln₂[(15C5)₄Pc]₃(where [(15C5)₄Pc][Formula: see text] is 2,3,9,10,16,17,24,25-tetrakis(15-crown-5)phthalocyaninate dianion, Ln = Ho(III), Tm(III)) have been studied in the physiological temperature range (from 303 to 323 K). The observed maximum temperature sensitivity [Formula: see text]/dT turns out to be 0.25 ppm/K for the signals of the thulium complex and 0.16 ppm/K for the holmium complex. By the example of Tm₂[(15C5)₄Pc]₃, it has been shown that the use of temperature sensitivities normalized to signal half-widths (∣CT∣/[Formula: see text] is expedient to judge the applicability of the observed temperature dependences of LISs of analogous lanthanide complexes (Ln = Tb, Dy, Ho, Tm) for determining temperatures. The investigated kinetically and thermodynamically stable Ln₂[(15C5)₄Pc]₃complexes can be considered promising for the design of thermosensitive NMR probes for determination of the local temperature in nonpolar solutions.