A one-pot two-step versatile synthesis of tailed tren-capped porphyrins has been achieved. The two resulting ligands demonstrate that this expeditious method can be applied to various axial bases to obtain highly functionalized macromolecules attractive for heme modeling purposes. Dioxygen binding of the pyridine-tailed iron complex is reported as a direct application.
[Smith, Catherine J.; Smith, Christopher D.; Nikbin, Nikzad; Ley, Steven V.; Baxendale, Ian R. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2011 , vol. 9, # 6 p. 1927 - 1937]
