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Synfacts 2011(11): 1180-1180  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1289227
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Alkynes en Route to Porphyrinoides

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager
C. Maeda*, T. Yoneda, N. Aratani, M.-C. Yoon, J. M. Lim, D. Kim*, N. Yoshioka*, A. Osuka*
Keio University, Yokohama and Kyoto University, Japan; Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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19 October 2011 (online)

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Significance

This method represents a very efficient and new synthesis of electronically active porphyrinoid macrocycles.The smaller thio­phene macrocycle (x =1) can be reversibly oxidized to give a highly delocalized material with a long wavelength absorption maximum at 1049 nm.