Issue 2, 2009
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Design and synthesis of porphyrin-containing catenanes and rotaxanes

Jonathan A. Faiz,a   Valérie Heitza  and  Jean-Pierre Sauvage*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minérale, LC 3, UMR 7177 du CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Faculté de Chimie, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, France
E-mail: sauvage@chimie.u-strasbg.fr
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Abstract

Catenanes and rotaxanes containing porphyrin subunits have become popular synthetic targets because of the large variety of available synthetic strategies including the coordination chemistry of metallated porphyrins, coupled with the many attractive physical properties of porphyrins. This tutorial review outlines various synthetic approaches and templating strategies that have been used to prepare a range of mechanically interlocked architectures that incorporate porphyrins as fundamental subunits either grafted onto macrocycles or as stoppers. These species are of interest in relation to recreating natural processes such as the photosynthetic apparatus or enzyme binding sites.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B710908N
Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
23 Sep 2008
First published
24 Nov 2008

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2009,38, 422-442

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Design and synthesis of porphyrin-containing catenanes and rotaxanes

J. A. Faiz, V. Heitz and J. Sauvage, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2009, 38, 422 DOI: 10.1039/B710908N

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