Unusual Photoisomerization Behavior of 2-Stilbazole Covalently Bound to Porphyrin.

Accession number;01A0228962
Title;Unusual Photoisomerization Behavior of 2-Stilbazole Covalently Bound to Porphyrin.
Author; SUGIMOTO HIROSHI (Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Fac. of Eng.) KURAMOTO KEIGO (Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Fac. of Eng.) INOUE SHOHEI (Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Fac. of Eng.)
Journal Title;Abstracts. Symposium on Biofunctional Chemistry
Journal Code:L0836A
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VOL.15th;NO.;PAGE.40-41(2000)
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Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;In the course of our recent study on the metalloporphyrin-stilbazole systems, we have synthesized a strategically designed porphyrin having covalently linked 2-stilbazole moiety in the periphery, such as 5-(2'-(2"-pyridylethenyl)phenyl)-10,15,20-triphenylporphyrin (stilbazole-porphyrin). As the results of photoisomerization studies of stilbazole-porphyrin and its zinc complex, trans-isomers of metal-free base and zinc complex of stilbazole-porphyrin did not isomerize into the corresponding cis-isomers under the irradiation of UV light, while cis-to-trans photoisomerization was observed for cis-form of stilbazole-porphyrin as well as the zinc complex. These facts are quite unexpected and interesting, since stilbazole is known to undergo the trans-to-cis isomerization upon UV irradiation, and the reversion by visible light only via the complexation of the pyridine group with metalloporphyrins. (author abst.)