Abstract
Four porphyrinic ionic liquids and four higher melting salts (>100 °C) were synthesized as potential photosensitizers from highly symmetric porphyrins by introducing alkyl chains and exchanging anions to tune their solubility and singlet oxygen generation capability. Among the synthesized compounds was 5,10,15,20-tetra(4-dodecylpyridinum)porphyrin tetrakis-bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)-amide, a room-temperature ionic liquid that could be crystallized as a solvate with nitrobenzene.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 659-663 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | ChemistryOpen |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2018 |
Funding
We thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for financial support. This research was undertaken, in part, thanks to funding from the Canada Excellence Research Chairs Program.
Keywords
- photosensitizers
- porphyrinic ionic liquids
- porphyrins
- singlet oxygen
- solubility