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Structural characterisation of the first mononuclear bismuth porphyrin
Bernard Boitrel1, Zakaria Halime, Lydie Michaudet
1Université de Rennes1, Institut de Chimie, UMR CNRS 6509, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. Bernard.Boitrel@univ-rennes1.fr
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 3, 2003
Abstract:
A single carboxylate picket bismuth porphyrin has been characterised in the solid state as the first instance of a non-dimeric structure; the carboxylate picket, bent over the macrocycle, is coordinated to the bismuth, inducing a significant distortion of the porphyrin core.