Among the several approaches for harnessing solar energy and converting it into electricity,
dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) represent one of the most promising methods for future …

As deaths from preventable diseases abate, cancer is becoming one of the leading causes
of death in the world. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a noninvasive treatment for cancer …

Porphyrin-based compounds has been the subject of recent investigations for their chemical
and biological properties. A variety of chemical modifications have been introduced in the …

Medicine can benefit significantly from advances in nanotechnology because nanoscale
assemblies promise to improve on previously established therapeutic and diagnostic …

Corroles have come a long way from being a curiosity to being a mainstream research topic.
They are now regularly synthesized in numerous research laboratories worldwide with …

Research in the area of dipyrrin chemistry has been traditionally pursued by research
groups intent on the synthesis of porphyrins. This is due to the historical application of …

Synthetic meso-substituted porphyrins offer significant attractions compared with naturally
occurring β-substituted porphyrins. The attractions include the rectilinear arrangement of the …

The utilization of metalloporphyrins as bioinspired oxidation catalysts is an evolving topic of
research. By understanding the cytochrome P-450 mechanism of action, chemists have …

Tetrapyrrolic macrocycles1 play a number of critical biological roles such as molecular
binding, 2 reaction catalysis, 3 energy and electron transfers, 4, 5 and light harvesting. 6 The …

Advances in the synthesis of unsymmetrically meso substituted porphyrins are based on the
development of new total syntheses and porphyrin functionalization methods. These …