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New Syntheses of Porphyrins and Related Tetrapyrroles

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Recently methods of synthesis of porphyrins have become more versatile. This makes available many new routes to biologically significant compounds.

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JACKSON, A., KENNER, G. New Syntheses of Porphyrins and Related Tetrapyrroles. Nature 215, 1126–1128 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151126a0

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