• Facile Supramolecular Engineering of Porphyrin cis Tautomers: The Case of β-Octabromo-meso-tetraarylporphyrins 

      Thomas, Kolle E.; Slebodnick, Carla; Ghosh, Abhik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-02)
      A porphyrin cis tautomer, where the two central NH protons are on adjacent pyrrole rings, has long been invoked as an intermediate in porphyrin tautomerism. Only recently, however, has such a species been isolated and structurally characterized. Thus, single-crystal X-ray structure determinations of two highly saddled free-base porphyrins, β-heptakis(trifluoromethyl)-meso-tetrakis(p-fluorophenyl)porphyrin, ...
    • Molecular Structure of Copper and μ-Oxodiiron Octafluorocorrole Derivatives: Insights into Ligand Noninnocence 

      Thomas, Kolle E.; Settineri, Nicholas S.; Teat, Simon J.; Steene, Erik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-23)
      Single-crystal X-ray structures were obtained for the copper and μ-oxodiiron complexes of 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octafluoro-5,10,15-triphenylcorrole, hereafter denoted as Cu[F8TPC] and {Fe[F8TPC]}2O. A comparison with the crystal structures of other undecasubstituted Cu corroles, including those with H, Ar, Br, I, and CF3 as β-substituents, showed that the degree of saddling increases in the order: H ...
    • The Story of 5d Metallocorroles: From Metal–Ligand Misfits to New Building Blocks for Cancer Phototherapeutics 

      Alemayehu, Abraham; Thomas, Kolle E.; Einrem, Rune Finsås; Ghosh, Abhik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-23)
      CONSPECTUS: Porphyrin chemistry is Shakespearean: over a century of study has not withered the field’s apparently infinite variety. Heme proteins continually astonish us with novel molecular mechanisms, while new porphyrin analogues bowl us over with unprecedented optical, electronic, and metal-binding properties. Within the latter domain, corroles occupy a special place, exhibiting a unique ...
    • X-ray absorption spectroscopy of archetypal chromium porphyrin and corrole derivatives 

      Cao, Rui; Thomas, Kolle E.; Ghosh, Abhik; Sarangi, Ritimukta (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-29)
      A combination of Cr K-edge XAS and DFT calculations have been performed on archetypal chromium porphyrinoid complexes Cr<sup>IV</sup>[TMP]O (<b>2</b>) and Cr<sup>V</sup>[TPC]O (<b>3</b>), and the results have been compared to the reference compound Cr<sup>III</sup>[TPP]Cl (<b>1</b>), where TPP<sup>2−</sup>, TMP<sup>2−</sup>, and TPC<sup>3−</sup> are the anions of <i>meso</i>-tetraphenylporphyrin, ...