Synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin

Porphyrins and their analogs are a class of chemically and biologically important compounds that have found a variety of applications in different fields such as catalysis and medicine, especially for photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT). The physical, chemical, and biological dependence of the periphe...

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Main Author: Muhammad, Muhammad Tahir
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spelling my-utm-ep.508142020-07-12T07:05:36Z Synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin 2014-06 Muhammad, Muhammad Tahir QD Chemistry Porphyrins and their analogs are a class of chemically and biologically important compounds that have found a variety of applications in different fields such as catalysis and medicine, especially for photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT). The physical, chemical, and biological dependence of the peripheral substituents of porphyrins on their properties has prompted great effort towards the synthesis of new porphyrins with different electronic, steric, and conformational environments. Significant improvement has been made to develop various synthetic methodologies in preparing the functionalised porphyrins. However, the challenges still remain especially to prepare asymmetrical type of porphyrin system which is useful for numerous applications. In this study, we have utilised three synthetic methods; condensation, bromination and Suzuki Cross Coupling reactions to synthesis porphyrins with different meso-substituents; A2-, AB-, A2B-, as well as ABC- type porphyrins. The synthetic strategy is developed based on dipyrromethane as the main precursor to prepare di-substituted porphyrin via Lindsey method, and followed by bromination reaction to obtain tri-substituted porphyrin. Eventually, the reaction was prolonged by using Suzuki- Cross coupling reaction to attain tri-substituted porphyrin. All of the compounds were characterized using Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H-NMR), Carbon Magic Angle Spin Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (13C-NMR), ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) spectroscopies. 2014-06 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50814/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50814/25/MuhammadTahirMuhammadMFS2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:89283 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Science Faculty of Science
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topic QD Chemistry
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Muhammad, Muhammad Tahir
Synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin
description Porphyrins and their analogs are a class of chemically and biologically important compounds that have found a variety of applications in different fields such as catalysis and medicine, especially for photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT). The physical, chemical, and biological dependence of the peripheral substituents of porphyrins on their properties has prompted great effort towards the synthesis of new porphyrins with different electronic, steric, and conformational environments. Significant improvement has been made to develop various synthetic methodologies in preparing the functionalised porphyrins. However, the challenges still remain especially to prepare asymmetrical type of porphyrin system which is useful for numerous applications. In this study, we have utilised three synthetic methods; condensation, bromination and Suzuki Cross Coupling reactions to synthesis porphyrins with different meso-substituents; A2-, AB-, A2B-, as well as ABC- type porphyrins. The synthetic strategy is developed based on dipyrromethane as the main precursor to prepare di-substituted porphyrin via Lindsey method, and followed by bromination reaction to obtain tri-substituted porphyrin. Eventually, the reaction was prolonged by using Suzuki- Cross coupling reaction to attain tri-substituted porphyrin. All of the compounds were characterized using Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H-NMR), Carbon Magic Angle Spin Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (13C-NMR), ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) spectroscopies.
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author Muhammad, Muhammad Tahir
author_facet Muhammad, Muhammad Tahir
author_sort Muhammad, Muhammad Tahir
title Synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin
title_short Synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin
title_full Synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin
title_fullStr Synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin
title_full_unstemmed Synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin
title_sort synthesis and characterization of meso-substituted porphyrin
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Science
granting_department Faculty of Science
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50814/25/MuhammadTahirMuhammadMFS2014.pdf
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