The replacement of one or more pyrrolic building block (s) of a porphyrin by a nonpyrrolic
heterocycle leads to the formation of so-called pyrrole-modified porphyrins (PMPs) …

Following immediately after the serendipitous discovery of N-confused porphyrins,
remarkably diverse carbaporphyrinoid systems have been synthesized and investigated. By …

Chemical modification at the periphery with nitrogen or chalcogens is a highly promising
strategy to diversify the optical, electrochemical, magnetic, and coordination properties of the …

The increasing popularity of porphyrins and hydroporphyrins for use in a variety of
biomedical (photodynamic therapy, fluorescence tagging and imaging, photoacoustic …

Conspectus Naturally occurring porphyrins and hydroporphyrins vary with respect to their
ring substituents and oxidation states, but their tetrapyrrolic frameworks remain fully …

The direct oxidations of meso-tetrakis (pentafluorophenyl) porphyrin using
cetyltrimethylammonium permanganate (CTAP), RuCl3/Oxone/base or Ag+/oxalic acid each …

In recent years, several synthetic strategies aiming at the peripheral functionalization of
porphyrins were developed. Particularly interesting are those involving the modification of β …

Porpholactones are porphyrinoids in which one or more β, β′-bonds of the parent
chromophore were replaced by lactone moieties. Accessible to varying degrees by direct …

The reaction of a carbatripyrrin with a tellurophene dicarbinol in the presence of BF3· Et2O,
followed by oxidation with DDQ, afforded the first example of a telluracarbaporphyrin …

Owing to their intense near infrared absorption and emission properties, to the ability to
photogenerate singlet oxygen, or to act as photoacoustic imaging agents within the optical …