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Synfacts 2008(10): 1053-1053  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1078042
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Very Rigid Porphyrin Prisms

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jose M. Lobez
K.-T. Youm, S. T. Nguyen*, J. T. Hupp*
Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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22 September 2008 (online)

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Significance

A permanent rigid assembly consisting of three porphyrin dimer panels can be built using the appropriate ligand on a template-directed ring-closing metathesis. Metal center removal after the prism assembly is also shown, yielding a metal-free structure.