title: A linear multiporphyrinic
abstract: A linear multiporphyrinic [2]-rotaxane has been synthesized using the transition metal-templating method for threading a gold(III)-incorporating macrocycle onto a rodlike, phenanthroline-derived chelate bearing carboxylate end groups. Stoppering has been performed by reacting the resulting prerotaxane with the amino derivative of a zinc tetraarylporphyrin under EDC-HOBt activation. A 34% yield has been realized for this one-pot, double amide bond formation.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minerale, UMR 7513 du C.N.R.S., Universite Louis Pasteur, Institut Le Bel, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Blanco
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Chambron
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Heitz
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Sauvage