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Azolium-Porphyrin Electrosynthesis
Fatima Akhssas1, Rongning Lin1, Michal Trojan1,2
1Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne UMR6302, CNRS, Univ. Bourgogne, 9 avenue Alain Savary, 21000, Dijon, France.
Abstract:
Electrochemical oxidation of Zn(II) 2,7,12,17-tetra-tert-butylporphyrin in the presence of a series of azole derivatives (1-methylimidazole, 1-vinyl-1H-imidazole, 2-(1H-imidazol-1-yl)pyridine, 1-methylbenzimidazole, 1-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole, and benzothiazole) affords the corresponding meso-substituted azolium-porphyrins in very mild conditions and good yields. It was found that these nucleophiles were strongly ligated to the zinc(II) azolium-porphyrin complexes. Thus a demetalation/remetalation procedure was performed to recover the non-azole-coordinated zinc(II) complexes. X-ray crystallographic structures of three azolium-porphyrins were solved. Cyclic voltammetry analyses provided insight into the electron-withdrawing effect of the azolium substituents.
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