Abstract:

In recent years much work has been done on the syntheses and properties of axial coordination reaction of zinc tetraphenylporphyrins with nitrogenous donors in order to better understand the detailed molecuar mechanism of natural zincous enzymes. However,only a few studies have been reported in which the nitrogenous donors are bound to the amino acid metallotetraphenylporphyrins with unsymmetric structures. In this paper, a new unsymmetric leucine tetraphenylporphyrin, 5-(4-leucine butoxyphenyl)-10,15,20-triphenylporphyrin (H₂[Leu-TPP]) and its Zn(Ⅱ) complex (Zn[Leu-TPP]) are synthesized. Their structures are characterized by elemental analysis, UV, IR, fluorescense spectra. The changes of the electronic absorption spectra of axial coordination reaction of Zn[Leu-TPP] with pyrimidine in chloroform are investigated Coordination number (n) and equilibrium constant (β) of the reaction are measured by visible spectra techniques. The changes of standard molar enthalpy (Δ_rH_m^⊙) and molar entropy (Δ_rS_m^⊙) of the reaction are calculated. The obtained data are listed in table 1.