ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 35, Number 5
JKCSEZ 35(5)
October 20, 1991 

Six free base porphyrins were synthesized by reacting pyrrole with benzaldehyde or its derivatives and then reacted with metal chlorides to prepare corresponding metal complexes. In addition, polymer-bonded porphyrins were synthesized by treating chloromethylated styrene-divinyl benzene (1%) copolymer beads with meso-tetra (p-aminophenyl)porphyrin (TNPP) solution and then treated with cupric chloride to obtain Cu(Res-NH-TPP-NH2). The porphyrin compounds were characterized by visible, inffrared and electron spin resonance spectral analyses. The metal contents of metalloporphyrins were determined by atomic adsorption spectrophotometry. The synthesized porphyrin compounds were subsequently examined for their catalytic strength and found the activity to increase in the following order: free base porphyrins; metalloporphyrins; polymer-bonded metalloporphyrin. Among metalloporphyrins, Cu-TNPP showed the greatest catalytic power.