a Department of Physical Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Inage-Yayoi, Chiba 263-8522, Japan b Department of Physical Chemistry, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Yamashina, Kyoto 607-8414, Japan
Abstract:
meso-Tetra(n-hexyloxycarbonyl)porphyrin was found to be converted into porphine, the mother compound of porphyrins, in a 77% yield when heated in aqueous sulfuric acid at 180 °C over 30 min under an inert atmosphere. The observation demonstrates that the substituted porphyrin serves as a novel and useful precursor for porphine.