A. Suzuki et al., SYNTHESIS OF RING-FLUORINATED PORPHYRINS AND RECONSTITUTIONAL MYOGLOBINS WITH THEIR IRON COMPLEXES, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 69(10), 1996, pp. 2923-2933
The total syntheses of monofluoroporphyrin derivatives from monofluoro
pyrroles and the reconstitution of synthetic heme into sperm-whale myo
globin are described. The heme orientation in a cavity of the protein
was determined by H-1 and F-19 NMR studies. It is noted that a fluoro
substituent was found to be a useful probe for studying the heme-prote
in interaction.