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Laboratory Methods of Organic Chemistry - Sciencemadness Dot Org

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PKOTOPOKPHYKIN 409<br />

chemistry <strong>of</strong> the coloured components <strong>of</strong> the blood pigment has been<br />

made complete. The iron-free parent substance <strong>of</strong> haemin, protoporphyrin,<br />

has the following structure :<br />

CH<br />

CH<br />

CO2H CO2H<br />

(b) (a)<br />

Protoporphyrin<br />

The starting material for the synthesis was the iron compound <strong>of</strong><br />

deuteroporphyrin in which c and d = H. By means <strong>of</strong> the Priedel-Crafts<br />

reaction (SnCl4 in place <strong>of</strong> A1C13), acetyl groups were introduced at<br />

c and d, the diketone formed was reduced to the glycol (haematoporphyrin,<br />

c and d =CH0H.CH3), and the latter converted into protoporphyrin<br />

with elimination <strong>of</strong> water.<br />

Fundamentally the synthesis <strong>of</strong> the porphyrins consists in condensation<br />

(by fusion) <strong>of</strong> two suitable " pyrromethines " with elimination <strong>of</strong><br />

HBr and simultaneous dehydrogenation. The formulae represent this<br />

process in the case <strong>of</strong> deuteroporphyrin :<br />

CH CH2.CH2.CO2H<br />

CH2.CH2.CO2H

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