ABSTRACT
Keywords: porphyrin, complexation, conformational correspondence, conformity, multipoint binding, chirality, circular dichroism
At present, the complex-forming properties of porphyrins are understood to be both the ability of porphyrins to enter into complexation reactions with metal cations to form metalloporphyrins and the ability of porphyrins to form supramolecular complexes. While metalloporphyrin formation processes have been fruitfully studied for many decades, works on supramolecular complexes of porphyrins having no less than two binding points, appeared in the literature only in the recent 10 to 15 years. Presented material generalizes and
analyzes the literature data and own results by the authors on supramolecular complexes of porphyrins, showing the main trends of the development of the modern supramolecular chemistry of porphyrins.
