1.Fanli Lu, M. Bao, C. Ma, X. Zhang, D. P. Arnold, J. Jiang*, “ Infra-red spectra of phthalocyanine and naphthalocyanine in sandwich-type (na)phthalocyaninato and porphyrinato rare earth complexes Part 3. The effects of substituents and molecular symmetry on the IR characteristics of phthalocyanine in bis(phthalocyaninato) rare earth complexes” Spectrochim Acta Part A , 59, 3273-3286, 2003.
2. Fanli Lu, X. Sun, R. Li, D. Liang, P. Zhu , C. F. Choi, D. K. P. Ng, T. Fukuda, N. Kobayashi, J. Jiang*, “Synthesis, spectroscopic properties, and electrochemistry of heteroleptic rare earth double-decker complexes with phthalocyaninato and tetrakis(4-chlorophenyl)porphyrinato ligands” New. J. Chem, 28, 1116-1122, 2004.
3. Fanli Lu, Llew Rintoul, Xuan Sun, Dennis P. Arnold, Xianxi Zhang, Jianzhuang Jiang*, “Vibrational spectroscopic characteristics of phthalocyanine and naphthalocyanine in sandwich-type phthalocyaninato and porphyrinato rare earth complexes Part 11. Raman spectroscopic characteristics of phthalocyanine in mixed [tetrakis(4-chlorophenyl)porphyrinato] (phthalocyaninato) rare earth double-deckers” J. Raman. Spectro., 35, 860-868, 2004.
4. Fanli Lu*, Ligai Zhang, Huaji Liu, Xiuru Yan, “Infrared spectroscopic characteristics of phthalocyanine in mixed [tetrakis(4-chlorophenyl)porphyrinato](phthalocyaninato) rare earth double-deckers” Vibrational Spectroscopy, 39 (2), 139-143, 2005.
5.Fanli Lu*, The effects of substituents, molecular symmetry, ionic radius of the rare earth metal, and macrocycle on the electronic absorption spectra characteristics of sandwich-type bis(phthalocyaninato) and mixed (phthalocyaninato)(porphyrinato) rare earth complexes, Polyhedron, 26(14), 3939-3946, 2007.
6. Fanli Lu*, Jianzhong Cui, Qiuhua Yang, “Synthesis and characterization of four novel mixed (porphyrinato)(phthalocyaninato) sandwich-type europium(III) complexes with [tetrakis(4-chlorophenyl)porphyrinato] and diversely substituted phthalocyaninato ligands”, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 360 (8), 2751-2757, 2007.
7. Fanli Lu*, Yajun Mao, Wendong Wang, Chi Xiao, Synthesis and characterization of new mixed rare earth triple-decker complexes with A3B type [5-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-10, 15, 20-tris- (4-octyloxyphenyl)porphyrinato] and phthalocyaninato Ligands, Dyes and Pigments, 99, 686-692, 2013.