Trans-disubstituted tetraarylporphyrin as a precursor to larger molecular architectures:: An application of MacDonald 2+2 porphyrin synthesis in aqueous anionic surfactant

MacDonald 2 + 2 procedure using acidified aqueous sodium dodecyl sulfate as the reaction medium. No scrambling was observed. The demethylation of 2 and subsequent reaction with HB(3,5-Me(2)Pyz)(3)OMoV(OCH2CH2O) gave 1.