New journal of chemistry

Synthesis and electrochemical properties of slipped-cofacial porphyrin dimers of ferrocene-functionalized Zn-imidazolyl-porphyrins as potential terminal electron …

D Kalita, M Morisue, Y Kobuke

Index: Kalita, Dipak; Morisue, Mitsuhiko; Kobuke, Yoshiaki New Journal of Chemistry, 2006 , vol. 30, # 1 p. 77 - 92

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Abstract

A systematic series of ferrocene-functionalized Zn-imidazolyl-porphyrins were synthesized to assemble into the slipped-cofacial porphyrin dimers through imidazolyl-to-zinc complementary coordination as artificial photosynthetic models. Direct substitution at the meso position of the porphyrin ring with ferrocence and octamethylferrocene leads to the characteristic electronic structures, while the ferrocene substituents through phenylene- ...