The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Synthesis of porphyrinoctakis (dialkylcarboxamides)

RW Kaesler, E LeGoff

Index: Kaesler, Ralph W.; LeGoff, Eugene Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1983 , vol. 48, # 23 p. 4399 - 4402

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Abstract

Certain water-soluble porphyrins have been reported as attractive alternatives to currently employed sensitizers in the photochemical reduction of water to hydrogen.'They have also been found to accumulate in tumors, 2 and their use as diagnostic3 and thereapeutic agents has been e~ amined.~ All of these porphyrins owe their water solubility to the presence of readily ionized substituents (carboxylate, 4 sulfonate: or quaternary ammonium6 salts). ...