Tetrahedron

Porphyrin building blocks for modular construction of bioorganic model systems

JS Lindsey, S Prathapan, TE Johnson, RW Wagner

Index: Lindsey, Jonathan S.; Prathapan, Sreedharan; Johnson, Thomas E.; Wagner, Richard W. Tetrahedron, 1994 , vol. 50, # 30 p. 8941 - 8968

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Abstract

We outline a modular building block strategy for the covalent assembly of porphyrin- containing model systems. Molecular design issues for the synthesis of porphyrin dimers, dye-porphyrin dyads, and multi-porphyrin arrays have been used to guide the development of this approach. The major design constraints are to achieve directed coupling of free base and/or metalloporphyrin building blocks in dilute solution under non-acidic non-metalating ...