An. Kozyrev et al., Thermolysis of vic-dihydroxybacteriochlorins: A new approach for the synthesis of chlorin-chlorin and chlorin-porphyrin dimers, ORG LETT, 1(8), 1999, pp. 1193-1196
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A novel approach for the preparation of symmetrical (chlorin-chlorin), and
unsymmetrical (chlorin-porphyrin) dimers joined with carbon-carbon linkages
as models to study the "intramolecular" charge transfer is discussed.