• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.925-928
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• 2006

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.97-100
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• 2000

Acid-catalyzed porphyrin formation from meso-aryltripyrromethanes and $25-bis({\alpha}$, - hydroxyl - $\alpha$ -phenyl) methylfuran is studied. The condensation resulted in selective scrambling of tripyrromethanes when the condensation was carried out with catalytic amounts of $BF_3$ in methylene chloride. But the reaction carried out with p-TsOH or $BEt_3$ catalysts in the presence of $NH_4Cl$ in acetonitrile, single porphyrin product was isolated without scrambling of starting tripyrromethane. The yields of porphyrin in these studies were somewhat lower than those of 2+2 condensations or aldehyde-pyrrole condensations.