Organic letters

Synthesis of porphyrins bearing trans-thiols

RC Jagessar, JM Tour

Index: Jagessar, Raymond C.; Tour, James M. Organic Letters, 2000 , vol. 2, # 2 p. 111 - 113

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Citation Number: 31

Abstract

A route to porphyrins bearing trans-thiols is described using a thioacetyl-containing aldehyde or a thioacetyl-containing dipyrromethane in the presence of catalytic BF3⊙ OEt2 followed by oxidation. Metal complexation and ammonium hydroxide induced acetyl removal provides a route to these important molecular systems for future electronics experiments in which the thiols would serve as the adhesion points to gold probes.