Efficient rhodium-catalyzed installation of unsaturated ester functions onto porphyrins: site-specific Heck-type
Hiromi Baba1, Jinping Chen, Hiroshi Shinokubo
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Abstract:
A facile introduction of alpha,beta- or alpha,beta,gamma,delta-unsaturated ester functions onto porphyrins was achieved through rhodium-catalyzed addition of beta-borylporphyrins to acrylate or 2,4-pentadienoate esters. The reaction of meso-borylporphyrins with acrylates exclusively afforded saturated esters by 1,4-conjugate addition under the same reaction conditions. Thus, the reaction mode (Heck-type versus conjugate addition) is highly dependent on the reaction site (beta versus meso). This functionalization has a significant impact on the electronic properties of the pi system of porphyrins, which induces a substantial redshift and broadening in the absorption spectra by effective conjugation through the beta positions. The coplanar structure of the unsaturated ester moieties with respect to the porphyrin core has been unambiguously elucidated by X-ray crystallographic analysis.
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