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Published on: March 4, 2021
Synthesis and crystal structure of a push-pull quinoidal porphyrin: a nanoporous framework assembled from cyclic
Martin J Smith1, William Clegg, Kiet A Nguyen
1Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford, UK.
Abstract:
A quinoidal porphyrin has been synthesised with such a curved pi-system that pi-pi stacking leads to the formation of cyclic trimer aggregates in the crystal, which pack to generate cylindrical channels with an internal diameter of 1.0 nm.
