Hong Kyeong-Im, Yoon Hongsik, Jang Woo-Dong
Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Korea.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 May 1;51(35):7486-8. doi: 10.1039/c5cc00809c.
A triazole-bearing picket fence type nickel porphyrin (1) has been synthesized as a host compound for anion binding. Among the various anionic species examined, cyanide was the only one that affected a spectral change of 1. Moreover, 1 exhibited strong homotropic positive allosterism against cyanide binding due to an electronic effect as well as multiple hydrogen bonds formed between cyanide and the triazole groups.