Pognon Grégory, Boudon Corinne, Schenk Kurt J, Bonin Michel, Bach Benoit, Weiss Jean
CLAC, Institut de Chimie LC3 UMR 7177 CNRS-ULP, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France.
J Am Chem Soc. 2006 Mar 22;128(11):3488-9. doi: 10.1021/ja058132l.
A new type of very compact Pacman bis-porphyrin scaffold has been obtained in which a calix[4]arene spacer provides both cofacial preorganization and flexibility. Changes in the distance between the two tetrapyrrolic macrocycles can be triggered by electrochemistry, where closed and open conformers can be interconverted in a handclapping motion.