“…[18][19][20][21] In this respect the formation of the imidazole heterocycles was shown to be a convenient approach for the conjugation of porphyrins and peripheral coordination centers. [18,22,23] Thus, we have successfully generalized the approaches for the preparation of functionalized meso-imidazolyl-, [19,24] imidazo-, [18,25,26] -pyrazino-, [22,27,28] and expanded pyrazino-derivatives. [29] In the present work we focused on the determination of the application scope of Debus-Radziszewski condensation for the preparation of a series of porphyrins containing functional -imidazolyl-substituents.…”