Porphyrin arrays may act as light-harvesting devices which mimic the photosynthetic capture of light. Until now the construction of a variety of arrays has been restricted by the lack of suitable methodology for porphyrin synthesis. A fully conjugated, aldehyde-appended porphyrin building block has been made and its potential demonstrated with the one-step synthesis of dimers and trimer 1.
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