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Synthesis of a Peptide-Linked Chlorin Dyad as a Model Compound for the Photosynthetic Reaction Centre

✍ Scribed by Thorsten Könekamp; Anna Ruiz; Jörn Duwenhorst; Wolfgang Schmidt; Tobias Borrmann; Wolf-Dieter Stohrer; Franz-Peter Montforts


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
310 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0947-6539

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

The enantiomerically pure chlorins 19 and 21 were synthesised from tripyrrolic nickel complex rac17 and pyrrole building blocks 12 and 16. The pyrroles are annelated with norbornane moieties which contain the chiral information as well as two different functionalities. The functional groups, namely a carboxylic acid ester and a carbonitrile group, of chlorin 21 finally allowed the formation of an amino acid functionality at the periphery of the macrotetracycle. By using principles of peptide chemistry, the two chlorin subunits were joined to form the peptide‐linked chlorin–chlorin dyad 24, which mimics the molecular parts of the natural photosynthetic reaction centre.


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