New Highly Conjugated Porphyrin Chromophores: Synthesis of Mono- and Diphenanthroporphyrins

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)00818-W

Porphyrins with one or two fused phenanthrene subunits have been prepared from phenanthro<9,10-c>pyrroles, which are in turn easily prepared from 9-nitrophenanthrene.