1 Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, and CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) of Japan Science and Technology Agency, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
[structure: see text] A series of meso-porphyrinyl-substituted expanded porphyrins were prepared from the 1:1 acid-catalyzed condensation reaction of 4-porphyrinyl-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzaldehyde and pyrrole.