Title
Syntheses of chlorins from unsymmetrically substituted iron porphyrins
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1988
Abstract
Mesohemin (1), deuterohemin (2), protohemin (3), 6,7-dipropylmesohemin (22), 1-(2-carboxyethyl)-meso-tetraphenylhemin (30), coprohemin-II (23), 2-acetyldeuterohemin (40), 2,4-diacetyldeuterohemin (41), and phyllohemin (51) were reduced to chlorins using sodium in isopentyl alcohol. Analytical and semi-preparative h.p.l.c. were used for separation, purification, and quantitation of isomers, which were then identified using 1H n.m.r. and mass spectroscopy. In the case of the mesochlorins (6), (8), (10), and (12), the ring-D reduced product, (10), was identified by comparison with an authentic sample prepared from rhodochlorin dimethyl ester (14). The results cast doubt on some previous claims that reduction of unsymmetrical hemins gives only one, or at most two chlorin products, but they also elaborate the electronic and steric factors which control selectivity of reduction.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
First Page
3119
Last Page
3131
Recommended Citation
Burns, D., Lai, J., & Smith, K. (1988). Syntheses of chlorins from unsymmetrically substituted iron porphyrins. Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1 (12), 3119-3131. https://doi.org/10.1039/P19880003119