Vyacheslav V. Diev, Denise Femia, Qiwen Zhong, Peter I. Djurovich, Ralf Haiges and Mark E. Thompson
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 1949-1952
DOI:
10.1039/C5CC09128D,
Communication
A bis-phenalenyl-fused porphyrin has been synthesized by thermal dehydro-aromatization reaction regioselectively as a single syn-isomer. X-ray crystal structure revealed that both phenalenyl units of this porphyrin have close π–π contacts forming continuous network of interacting porphyrin rings. A broad and intense NIR absorption can be attributed to quinoidal character of bis-phenalenyl-fused porphyrin.
