“…The degree and mode of transmission of electronic effects between various points on the porphyrin ring and the central metal via the σ and π orbitals of the four porphyrin nitrogens have long been of interest to those who have investigated the physical properties and chemical reactions of metalloporphyrinates. − Because of the high aromaticity of the porphyrin ring system, electron-donating or -withdrawing substituents on the periphery of the molecule have been shown to affect the basicity of the porphyrin nitrogens, , the rate of N−H tautomerism in porphyrin free-bases, 6b,21a, the chemical shifts of pyrrole and NH protons in free-base tetraphenylporphyrins, 20a, rates of phenyl ring rotation 21b,c,25 and porphyrin ring inversion 22 in metalloporphyrinates, visible absorption spectra,19b spin states, EPR parameters, NMR isotropic shifts, 20b,c,, metal nucleus NMR chemical shifts, , rate 7d,12b and equilibrium 7e-15 constants for axial ligation, reduction potentials 7b,c,8d,11,15-18 of both porphyrin ring and metal redox reactions, and metal incorporation rates. 7f,g, In most of the systems studied (except refs , , , c, and 29), symmetrically substituted tetraphenylporphyrins having either meta or para substituents on the phenyl rings have been investigated, and it has usually been found that the above physical properties correlate with the Hammet σ constants of the substituents:
Here P(X) and P(H) are the observed physical property of the tetraphe...…”