Expanded Porphyrin Chemistry: The Recent Advances and Promising Future Trends
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 306
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular modeling; DFT; spintronics; molecular catalysis
2. Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Interests: nanoparticles; spintronics; non-covalent interactions; dative bond
Interests: computational chemistry; density functional theory; electron structure theory; non-covalent interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Porphyrins are the most widespread of all prosthetic groups found in nature. These highly colored tetrapyrrolic pigments play a range of diverse and critical roles in nature, ranging from electron transfer, oxygen transport, photosynthetic processes and catalytic substrate oxidation, such that they are aptly termed as ‘pigments of life’. The expanded porphyrin complexes are promising candidates and basic building blocks for an extended metalloporphyrin array that can potentially mimic the biological design of energy-harvesting materials. The interesting electronic environment along with their unorthodox optical response make the expanded porphyrinoid systems to open up new avenues for technology and medical applications. Subsequently, the expanded porphyrins have a huge prospective towards biomedical applications as potential phototherapeutic agents. With the evolution of molecular electronics, π-extended porphyrins could also become unique precursors for the fabrication of electron- and energy-transfer nanoscale devices. Certain important measures that must be tuned for the design and development of these functional porphyrin-based dyes are the nature of the bridges between aromatic components, the distance and relative orientation between each chromophore, structural conformation, and the extent of steric interactions.
Dr. Amrit Sarmah
Dr. Rabindranath Lo
Dr. Debashree Manna
Dr. Manabendra Sarma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- synthesis of expanded porphyrins
- porphyrin-based energy-harvesting materials
- electronic structure of expanded porphyrins
- biomedical applications
- bio-inspired photovoltaic
- 2D porphyrin framework
