| Abstract: | Vinyl copolymers with pendant porphyrin dimers were synthesized first by the dimerizations of chlorophyll-α and protoporphyrin IX via the ethylenebisamide linkage, then by copolymerization of the vinylbenzyl esters of the resulting dimers with N-vinylpyrrolidone or the esterification reaction of the dimers with chloromethylstyrene copolymers. Dimer-pendant copolymers with vinyl pyrrolidone catalyzed photoredox systems in aqueous solutions more efficiently than the corresponding monomer analogs, presumably because of the interactions exerted between the two combined porphyrin rings, which are manifested in the hypochromic effect in absorption spectra. The effect of the central Mg atom in the protoporphyrin IX ring was also considerable. |
