Highly deformed phthalocyanine as a suitable scaffold for pristine fullerenes

1 : 1 co-crystallization of phthalocyanine with pristine C60 or C70 was achieved for the first time using a highly deformed phthalocyanine bearing phenyl substituents at α-positions. In the molecular packing diagrams of both cocrystallates, fullerene and phthalocyanine molecules are alternately arranged to form a one-dimensional array.