The synthesis of niphaphyrins, a new class of rigid, snowflake-shaped porphyrin hexamers designed to mimic the light-harvesting antenna complexes of photosynthetic purple bacteria, is described. In these D6- or D3-symmetric assemblies, six porphyrin macrocycles, as free bases or as zinc chelates, are covalently attached to the six positions of a benzene core through rigid ethynyl linkers. A very efficient singlet excited-state energy transfer has been observed from the Zn chelates to the free-base porphyrin (Fb) chromophores in a niphaphyrin in which three zinc porphyrin chelates alternate with three porphyrin free bases. The overall yield of energy transfer (ΦET) has been estimated as 98%.
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