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A meso-meso β-β β-β Triply Linked Subporphyrin Dimer
Yasuhiro Okuda1, Norihito Fukui1, Jinseok Kim2
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
Abstract:
A meso-meso β-β β-β triply linked subporphyrin dimer 6 was synthesized by stepwise reductive elimination of β-to-β doubly PtII -bridged subporphyrin dimer 9. Dimer 6 was characterized by spectroscopic and electrochemical measurements, theoretical calculations, and picosecond time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy. X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that 6 has a bowl-shaped structure with a positive Gaussian curvature. Despite the curved structure, 6 exhibits a remarkably red-shifted absorption band at 942 nm and a small electrochemical HOMO-LUMO gap (1.35 eV), indicating an effectively conjugated π-electronic network.
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