A general mechanism for metal ion incorporation into porphyrin molecules

1 January 1972

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 1,p. 13-14
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39720000013

Abstract

The mechanism of incorporation of metal ions into porphyrins involves two species, one, a metal ion, proton, or N-alkyl group used to deform the porphyrin while a second metal ion enters from the opposite side to form the metalloporphyrin.

Keywords

METAL ION