Volume 43, Issue 39 pp. 5124-5128
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Bimetallic Figure-Eight Octaphyrins Split into Four-Pyrrolic Macrocycles

Lechosław Latos-Grażyński Prof. Dr.

Lechosław Latos-Grażyński Prof. Dr.

Department of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, 14 F. Joliot-Curie Street, Wrocław 50 383, Poland, Fax: (+48) 713-282-348

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First published: 29 September 2004
Citations: 40

Graphical Abstract

Molecular mitosis: Figure-eight octaphyrins form binuclear metal complexes that can split into two covalently spiro-linked corrolates. In a unique case binuclear CuII [36]octaphyrin divides thermally into two CuII [18]porphyrins presumably with participation of a transient spirocyclobutane species (see schematic representation).

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