Shinokubo Hiroshi, Osuka Atsuhiro
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Mar 7(9):1011-21. doi: 10.1039/b817941g. Epub 2009 Jan 14.
The development of porphyrin synthesis by means of transition metal-catalyzed reactions is explored in this feature article. Porphyrins have been receiving much attention in a wide area of chemistry as functional dyes, non-linear optical materials, ligands for a variety of metals, structural motifs in supramolecules, and so forth. However, they have been merely recognized as a reaction substrate in transition metal-catalyzed transformations. Recently, application of such new methodologies to porphyrin synthesis has proven to be very powerful to create new types of porphyrinic compounds, which have their own intriguing structures and properties. New transformations on porphyrins via transition metal catalysis offer us prospects of new designs of architectures, thus facilitating further development of this important class of functional molecules.
在这篇专题文章中，我们探讨了通过过渡金属催化反应合成卟啉的进展。卟啉作为功能性染料、非线性光学材料、多种金属的配体、超分子中的结构基序等，在广泛的化学领域中备受关注。然而，在过渡金属催化的转化反应中，它们仅仅被视为反应底物。最近，将此类新方法应用于卟啉合成已被证明对于创造新型卟啉化合物非常有效，这些化合物具有其自身有趣的结构和性质。通过过渡金属催化对卟啉进行的新转化为我们提供了新的结构设计前景，从而推动了这一重要功能分子类别的进一步发展。
