I. General Introduction to Photodynamic Therapy 1.1 Photodynamic therapy 1.2 History of
PDT 1.3 The history of the first generation PDT agent hematoporph~.'n derivative 1.4 …

Porphyrin is a class of tetrapyrrole compound with both natural and synthetic occurrence
and its derivatives perform a significant role as light harvesting antenna in the natural …

0009-2665/94/0794-0659 $14.00/0 fascination for molecular scientists. Our present un-
derstanding of how hemoglobin works has arisen from a notable interplay of studies on both …

Owing to the central importance of multiporphyrin assemblies in photosynthetic reaction
centers and light-harvesting antenna complexes, considerable attention has been focused …

The selective localization of naturally occurring1 and synthetic porphyrins1 2 in malignant
tumor tissue has been recognized for decades. Radiometalated porphyrinate derivatives …

Porphyrin macrocycles have been the subject of intense study in the last century because
they are widely distributed in nature, usually as metal complexes of either iron or …

Synthesis, structural characteristics, and optical and electrochemical properties of various
covalently-linked porphyrin arrays are described. First, aromatic-spacer bridged …

Porphyrins react readily with organolithium reagents, preferentially in the meso positions.
The overall reaction is a nucleophilic substitution and proceeds via initial reaction of the …

Rhenium (bipyridine)(tricarbonyl)(picoline) units have been linked covalently to
tetraphenylmetalloporphyrins of magnesium and zinc via an amide bond between the …

Novel benzo [f] quinoxalino [2, 3-β] porphyrin carboxylic acid (ZnBQA) and
cyanoquinoxalino [6, 7-β] porphyrin carboxylic acid (ZnQCA) have been synthesized to …