Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Porphyrin and Their Derivatives
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 364
Special Issue Editors
Interests: core-modified porphyrins; heteroporphyrins; exotic coordination chemistry of porphyrins and porphyrinoids; flexible porphyrins; annulene–porphyrin hybrids and their coordination chemistry; NMR spectroscopy
Special Issue Information
Research on porphyrins and their derivatives have consistently attracted scientists for decades. The porphyrin structure, sometimes called “Nature’s workhorse”, is responsible for a multitude of chemically distinct reactions crucial for living organisms. The diversity of functions performed by the same macrocyclic cofactor, heme, probably the most widely known porphyrin complex, has its source in porphyrin structure flexibility at several degrees of freedom.
The porphyrin macrocyclic skeleton, being both stable and aromatic, is typically described as a bridged diaza[18]annulene with a 18 π-electron conjugation path. This frame is, however, conformationally flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of metal and several non-metal ions in the coordination core. The functional versatility of the porphyrin or metalloporphyrin structure is achieved through several levels of structural modifications, such as peripheral substitution, reduction/oxidation of a pyrrole ring, and alterations of the coordination core and/or axial ligation of metalloporphyrins which tune the molecule chemical and physicochemical characteristics.
Thus, in the search for desired properties and potential applications in various fields, including analytics, physical and supramolecular chemistry, catalysis, medicine, as well as optics and materials science, novel structures are still being synthesized and thoroughly characterized.
This Special Issue will cover all aspects of the synthesis, structural elucidation, characterization, and reactivity of porphyrins and their derivatives.
Dr. Ewa Dudziak
Dr. Anna Berlicka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- synthesis of novel porphyrins and their derivatives
- postsynthetic modifications of porphyrins
- synthesis of metalloporphyrins
- spectroscopic characterization of porphyrins and metalloporphyrins
- reactivity of the porphyrins and porphyrin derivatives
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