5, 10-Diphenyltripyrrane, a useful building block for the synthesis of meso-phenyl substituted expanded macrocycles

…, ED Sternberg, RW Boyle, D Dolphin

Index: Brueckner, Christian; Sternberg, Ethan D.; Boyle, Ross W.; Dolphin, David Chemical Communications, 1997 , # 17 p. 1689 - 1690

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Abstract

Pyrrole and benzaldehyde were condensed under acidic conditions to produce a mixture of 5-phenyldipyrromethane and 5, 10-diphenyltripyrrane; the tripyrrane was utilized in syntheses of meso-phenylsapphyrins, meso-diphenylpentaphyrin and meso- hexaphenylhexaphyrin.