Synthesis of ferrocenyl porphyrins via Suzuki coupling and their photophysical properties

Abstract

In order to improve the synthetic access to ferrocene porphyrin type electron transfer compounds meso-ferrocenyl appended porphyrins and bisporphyrins were prepared using Suzuki coupling reactions of borylated porphyrins with appropriate ferrocene precursors. The fluorescence lifetimes of all ferrocene porphyrin compounds are between 7.4 ? 10.3 ns.