Chemoresistors working at room temperature are attractive for low-consumption integrated sensors. Previous studies show that this feature can be obtained with photoconductive porphyrins-coated ZnO nanostructures. Furthermore, variations of the porphyrin molecular structure alter both the chemical sensitivity and the photoconductivity, and can be used to define the sensor characteristics. Based ...

Simplified chemical screening tests and an apparatus to facilitate their performance have been developed for porphyrins. The tests are applicable to urine, stool, and blood. The procedures for different specimens are essentially identical and can be performed in a few minutes with a minimum of reagents and apparatus. Results obtained are usually sufficiently definitive to permit differential di...

3. Soluble Metal Oxides 2459 3.1. Polyoxometalates 2459 3.2. Peroxotungstates 2459 3.3. Peroxomolybdates 2460 3.4. Methyltrioxorhenium 2461 3.5. Other Metal Oxides 2461 4. Metal Oxides Generated in Situ 2461 4.1. Selenium and Arsenic Compounds 2461 4.2. Simple Metal Salts 2462 5. Coordination Complexes 2463 5.1. Manganese Porphyrins 2463 5.2. Iron Porphyrins 2464 5.3. Manganese Salen Complexes ...

We have synthesized new D-A-D type phosphorus(V) porphyrin derivatives and functionalized with axial carbazolylvinylnaphthalimide units. The absorption bands of the obtained phosphorus(V) porphyrins were in the range 250-640 nm with high molar absorption coefficients, meaning strong light-harvesting abilities. Notably, it is found that the devices based on phosphorus(V) porphyrins with a config...

The present study (see ref 1) delineates the scope and limitations of porphyrin chromophores for structural studies by the exciton coupled circular dichroic (CD) method. A distance dependency of the porphyrin coupling was investigated in the range between 10 and 50 Å. Over short interchromophoric distances, significant changes in the conformational distribution introduced by the bulky porphyrin...

Two water soluble porphyrins: meso-tetra-4-N-methylpyridyl-porphyrin iodide (P1) and 5,10-di-(4-acetamidophenyl)-15,20-di-(4-N-methylpyridyl) porphyrin (P2) were synthesised and evaluated in respect to their photochemical and photophysical properties as well as biological activity. Cytotoxic and phototoxic effects were evaluated in human malignant melanoma Me45 line using clonogenic assay, cyto...

Hematoporphyrin derivative linked by ether bonds (HE) was synthesized by unambiguous procedures in order to compare its properties to hematoporphyrin derivative (HpD). Reverse phase high performance liquid and gel filtration chromatography were used to compare the HE derivatives to HpD. The cellular uptake of HE derivatives was compared to HpD using the WEHI 3B (D+) cell line and was shown to b...

Calixphyrins are a class of hybrid molecules that lie at the structural crossroads between porphyrins and calixpyrroles. Porphyrins, long known for their versatile metal cation coordination chemistry, are macrocycles that contain only sp2-hybridized bridging meso carbon atoms within their framework. Calix[n]pyrroles, on the other hand, are porphyrin analogs that contain pyrroles bridged exclusi...

The increasing popularity of porphyrins and hydroporphyrins for use in a variety of biomedical (photodynamic therapy, fluorescence tagging and imaging, photoacoustic imaging) and technical (chemosensing, catalysis, light harvesting) applications is also associated with the growing number of methodologies that enable their solubilization in aqueous media. Natively, the vast majority of synthetic...

The synthesis of five new meso-tetraarylporphyrins having pyridine, pyrimidine, or nitrile groups extending tetragonally via alkynyl linkages from the para positions is described. The radial extension is nearly double that of common porphyrins such as tetra-p-pyridylporphyrin. Practical quantities can be produced by Pd-coupling protocols when traditional methods fail. Applications of these exte...