Construction of Giant Porphyrin Macrorings Self??Assembled from Thiophenylene??Linked Bisporphyrins for Light??Harvesting Antennae

K Fujisawa, A Satake, S Hirota…

Index: Fujisawa, Kaori; Satake, Akiharu; Hirota, Shun; Kobuke, Yoshiaki Chemistry - A European Journal, 2008 , vol. 14, # 34 p. 10735 - 10744

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Abstract

Abstract As a model of bacterial photosynthetic light-harvesting antenna, a large number of porphyrin units were organized into barrel-shaped macrorings. Two imidazolylporphyrinatozinc (II) molecules were linked through either unsubstituted thiophenes or 3, 4-dioctylthiophenes 1 a and 1 b, respectively. These structures were spontaneously organized by complementary coordination of the imidazolyl to zinc and ...