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Published on: June 10, 2021
Directly Pd(II)-bridged porphyrin belts with remarkable curvatures
Jianxin Song1, Naoki Aratani, Ji Haeng Heo
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Abstract:
A beta,beta'-doubly 2,6-pyridylene-bridged porphyrin dimer and trimer were prepared by Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions and confirmed to have largely bent structures. These oligoporphyrins were readily metalated via meso-C-H bond activation with the assistance of the pyridyl nitrogen atoms to produce the corresponding Pd(II) complexes, which display even larger bent structures and larger TPA values at 800 nm.
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