Thursday, 17 May 2007
3rd Floor Hall (Pfahler Hall)
300

Synthesis of porphyrin-imidazolium-ferrocene complexes as precursors to porphyrin arrays

Jennifer Chabra, Rukya Ali, Virginia Seng, Xiulan Wang, and Alison Hyslop. St. John's University, Queens, NY

Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins compounds are used in energy conversion and in the molecular-scale electronic devises. The synthesis of asymmetric porphyrin derivatives is of great interest for the development of new molecular structures. We are interested in the synthesis of porphyrin arrays in which a ferrocene moiety is attached to the porphyrin through an imidazole ring. We have recently synthesized and characterized a bis-porphyrin imidazolium compound and are extending the synthetic methodology to incorporate a ferrocene onto the imidazole ring.

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