Three new double-bridged phthalocyanine-fullerene dyads were studied with spectroscopic and electrochemical methods. The two-linker strategy was applied for the first time to phthalocyanine-fullerene dyads. Photoinduced electron transfer (ET) of the dyads was found to occur from the excited state of phthalocyanine both in polar and non-polar environment. Examination of ET energetics revealed that the phthalocyanine-fullerene dyads exist mainly in an extended conformation as opposed to a face-to-face orientation common for the similar double-bridged porphyrin-fullerene dyads. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.