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1.1 Porphyrins - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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1 Introduction<br />

Especially interesting are compounds of basic structures 2, 4 or 7 since those are in close<br />

relation to naturally occurring compounds like heme (protoporphyrin IX, 12) found in<br />

mammalian blood and many cytochromes, the chlorophylls in plants and bacteria and corrin<br />

derivatives in cobalamines (e. g. in vitamin B12).<br />

Figure 3. Structures of hemoglobin (left) 25 and cytochrome c (center) 26 both containing iron<br />

complexes of protoporphyrin IX (Fe-12) and vitamin B12 (right) 27 based on a corrin structure<br />

13.<br />

6<br />

N<br />

NH HN<br />

N<br />

CO 2 H<br />

N<br />

N<br />

H<br />

N<br />

CO2H 12 13<br />

Scheme 5. Structure of protoporphyrin IX 12 and basic structure of corrin 13.<br />

Because of that great importance, it is easily understandable that a lot of research work has<br />

been done on porphyrinoids in order to find out how fundamental processes of life are<br />

working. For that purpose, the systems or suitable model compounds have to be made<br />

accessible either from nature by isolation procedures or by appropriate synthetic pathways.<br />

The latter shall be discussed next.<br />

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