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A saddle-distorted and cationic Zn(II)-porphyrin complex was revealed to exhibit solvatochromism in organic solvents, depending on the donor numbers. The color change was derived from the alteration of the HOMO-LUMO gap caused by the distortion of the porphyrin mean plane due to solvent coordination.
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