Disciplines
Inorganic Chemistry
Abstract
This thesis describes in a number of separate chapters a range of studies that measure the variation of specific physical properties with structural modification of the macrocycles, with a particular focus also on using their coordinated metals as probes. Specifically, the transition metal ions are used as tools for interrogation of the electronic properties of porphyrins and pyrrole-modified porphyrins. With the aim of better understanding the electronic and structural factors that govern the optical responses, axial binding strengths, fragmentation patterns and carbonyl stretching frequencies of meso-tetraarylporphyrins, a rational design of pyrrole-modified metalloporphyrins with designed optical properties is derived.
Recommended Citation
Worlinsky, Jillian, "Transition Metals as Tools to Probe the Electronic Properties of Porphyrinoids" (2013). Chemistry Education Materials. 92.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/chem_educ/92