Assembly and Crystal Structure of a Photoactive Array of Five Porphyrins

Anderson S, Anderson HL, Bashall A, McPartlin M, Sanders JKM

Locked into a tub geometry, the pentaporphyrin array illustrated has a well‐defined conformation both in solution and in the crystal. Self‐assembly of this light‐harvesting antenna model quenches the fluorescence of both the central tetrapyridylporphyrin unit and the zinc porphyrin tetramer. (Figure Presented.) Copyright © 1995 by VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Germany