The synthesis of a new sandwich lutetium(III) bisphthalocyanine substituted with hexylthio groups (
1), [(C
6H
13S)
8Pc]
2Lu, is described. The compound is very soluble in most common organic solvents and has been fullycharacterized (elemental analysis, IR,
1H and
13C NMR, UV-vis spectroscopy, mass spectrometry). The chemicallyoxidized and reduced forms have been formed and characterized. The crystal structure of the compound (
1) hasbeen determined by X-ray diffraction on a single crystal. It crystallizes in the monoclinic space group
C2/
c with
a = 31.558(2) Å,
b = 32.755(2) Å,
c = 20.489(1) Å,
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= 127.119(1)
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, and
Z = 4. The temperature dependenceof the magnetic susceptibility, measured on polycrystalline samples and in the range 6-300 K, is in agreementwith one unpaired electron per molecular unit as found for the unsubstituted derivative. The magnetic results canbe modeled assuming one-dimensional chain of spin
S =
1/
2 with
g = 2.04 and an antiferromagnetic coupling (
J= -11.83 cm
-1,
H = -2
J
SiSj).