Meso-substituted liquid porphyrins
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Agnieszka Nowak-Król1, Dorota Gryko, Daniel T Gryko
1Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland.
Chemistry, an Asian Journal
|March 18, 2010
Abstract:
Meso-substituted A(4)-porphyrins bearing 3,4,5-trialkoxyphenyl substituents are efficiently synthesized and characterized. Porphyrins bearing twelve C10 and C11 alkyl chains turned out to be liquid at room temperature. The remaining porphyrins, bearing C8, C9, C12, and C18 alkyl chains, have low melting points and high solubility in nonpolar solvents. Their differential scanning calorimetry distinctly shows, in most cases, only one phase transition.
