Triaryl-substituted pyrrolo-p-phenylene-linked porphyrin-fullerene dyads: Expanding the structural diversity of photoactive materials

A protocol for the synthesis of pyrrolo-p-phenylene-linked porphyrin-fullerene dyads suitable as photoactive materials was developed. The sequence of aziridination – aziridine ring opening – 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions enabled us to provide structural variability both to the porphyrin core and to pyrrole linker, which facilitates designing the electronic structure and morphological parameters of the dyads. The key porphyrin building blocks, nitro-porphyrins, were synthesized by a stochastic cyclocondensation of arenecarbaldehydes with p-nitrophenyl(dipyrrolyl)methane.