A Tethered Porphyrin Dimer with π Overlap of a Single Pyrrole Ring

Spencer Knapp; Jayasree Vasudevan; Thomas J Emge; Byron H Arison; Joseph A Potenza; Harvey J Schugar

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980918)37:17<2368::AID-ANIE2368>3.0.CO;2-K

A Tethered Porphyrin Dimer with π Overlap of a Single Pyrrole Ring

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 1998 Sep 18;37(17):2368-2370. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980918)37:17<2368::AID-ANIE2368>3.0.CO;2-K.

Authors

Spencer Knapp¹, Jayasree Vasudevan¹, Thomas J Emge¹, Byron H Arison², Joseph A Potenza¹, Harvey J Schugar¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087 (USA), Fax: (+1) 732-445-5312.
² Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ (USA).

Abstract

The special pair of the bacterial photosystem has been modeled with a porphyrin dimer (the partial structure is shown). As with the natural system, only one pyrrole ring from each monomer subunit participates in π overlap.

Keywords: N ligands; NMR spectroscopy; Photosynthesis; Porphyrinoids; UV/Vis spectroscopy.