Crystal Structure of Porphine
- 1 November 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 43 (9) , 3100-3111
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1697283
Abstract
The crystal structure of porphine, the parent compound in the porphyrin series, was determined by x‐ray diffraction analysis. The phases of the normalized structure factors were obtained by the probability methods of Hauptman and Karle. The crystals are monoclinic with four molecules per unit cell, and the C2h5—P21/a space group requires no molecular symmetry. Observed small deviations from planarity are not large enough to be significant. Comparison of the crystal structures of several porphyrins indicates that the porphine skeleton is probably planar or nearly planar in the vapor phase, although marked ruffling occurs in some crystals because of crystal‐packing forces. The wide variation in molecular configuration found in different crystals emphasizes the easy deformability of the molecule; this property may be important in biological systems.Keywords
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