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Magnesium Trimethoxyphenylporphyrin Chain Controls Energy Dissipation in the presence of Cholesterol

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A magnesium porphyrin compound, [Mg(TMPP)(H2O)].(CH3COCH3)2H2O 1 (TMPP = 5,10, 15,20-tetrakis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)porphyrin) has been synthesized and characterized using single crystal X-ray diffraction and other spectroscopic analysis. The luminescence properties of compound 1 were studied at different concentrations. At higher concentration (3 × 10−3 M), treatment of 1 with cholesterol enhanced the luminescence when excited at Soret band, demonstrating the role of lipid in controlling porphyrin-porphyrin interaction for tuning the bulk photophysical properties. However, at lower concentration (10−5 M) of porphyrin, there was no significant change in luminescence intensity in the presence of cholesterol. It suggests some role of lipids in light harvesting systems where chlorophyll is present at higher concentration.

A magnesium porphyrin compound, [Mg(TMPP)(H2O)].(CH3COCH3)2H2O 1 (TMPP = 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)porphyrin) was synthesized and structurally characterized using single crystal X-ray diffraction and other spectroscopic analysis. The luminescence properties of compound 1 were studied at different concentrations. At higher concentration (3 x 10-3 M), treatment of compound 1 with cholesterol enhanced fluorescence demonstrating the role of lipid in controlling porphyrin-porphyrin interaction for tuning the bulk photo-physical properties.

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This work was supported by start-up grant (YSS/2015/ 000394) from SERB, DST, New Delhi. Authors are thankful to Dr. Md. Harunar Rashid, Department of Chemistry, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar for the use of fluorescence spectrophotometer.

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CCDC 1061635 contain the supplementary crystallographic data for complex 1. This data can be obtained free of charge from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre via www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/data_request/cif. The UV-Visible, IR, luminescence spectra are available as Supplementary Information for this article at www.ias.ac.in/chemsci.

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BORAH, K.D., SINGH, N.G. & BHUYAN, J. Magnesium Trimethoxyphenylporphyrin Chain Controls Energy Dissipation in the presence of Cholesterol. J Chem Sci 129, 449–455 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12039-017-1251-0

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