Tokuji Sumito, Takahashi Yuji, Shinmori Hideyuki, Shinokubo Hiroshi, Osuka Atsuhiro
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-502, Japan.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Mar 7(9):1028-30. doi: 10.1039/b819284g. Epub 2009 Jan 6.
The treatment of 3,5-dibenzoylporphyrins with ammonium acetate provided novel oxopyridochlorins as the first examples of pyridine-fused porphyrinoids, which displayed absorption bands reaching into the near IR region and an ability to sensitize singlet oxygen effectively.
