Copper complexes, with tetraphenylporphyrin

The metalloporphyrin-catalyzed decomposition of ethyl azidoformate in the presence of an arene has been investigated but with little success in improving the yields of the 1 //-azepines.151 The nickel and copper complexes had no effect, whereas the cobalt-tetraphenylporphyrin complex accelerated the decomposition rate of the azido ester but produced more A-arylurethane rather than 1//-azepine. 

Some very sensitive methods for determination of copper with porphyrins have been described. The molar absorptivities of the copper cationic complexes of porphyrins at the sharp Soret bands (near 400 nm) are of the order (2-5)-10 [9,10,72,73]. Examples are (a,p,y,5-tetraphenylporphyrin trisulphonic acid (formula 19.6) [72]. The porphyrins have been utilized in the presence of various surfactants [74,75] the value of e = 4.7-10 has been... 

Zr(IV), and Ce(IV) as the central metal ion. Copper(II) porphyrins are among the most studied of the paramagnetic metalloporphyrins. The Cu(II) complexes show a low-temperature luminescence that arises from the and states that exist in thermal equilibrium. These two states are derived from the lowest excited triplet state on the porphyrin ring, which is split because of the presence of a unpaired electron on the Cu(II) center. Transient absorption measurements show that the ambient temperature excited-state decay times are lowered when a ligand is associated with the axial coordination positions of the tetracoordinate Cu(Il) porphyrin complex. The excited state lifetimes of Cu(II) porphyrin complexes in solution can be either dependent or independent of the temperature and solvent. For the octaethylporphyrin complex Cu(OEP) the excited state lifetime increases as the temperature is lowered, and also as the solvent polarity is increased. By contrast, the excited state lifetime of the tetraphenylporphyrin Cu(TPP) is insensitive to both the temperature and the polarity of the solvent. This difference in their photophysical behavior is likely due to a difference in the energy gap between the charge transfer state and the T/ T states in the pair of complexes. 

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