Diprotonation equilibria of inverted platform of tetraanionic 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4′-sulfophenyl)-2-aza-21carbaporphyrin, H 2 IP(PhSO 3 H) 4 , with perchloric acid in water was studied using DFT/B3LYP/6-31++G(d,p) and spectropotentiometric titration methods. In aqueous solution this porphyrinoid exists in the form of NH tautomer H 2 I (i) P(PhSO 3-) 4 with an inverted pyrrolenine ring, which is stabilized by bifurcated intramolecular hydrogen bonds between two pyrrole hydrogens and one pyrrolenine nitrogen. Intramolecular hydrogen bonds protect intramolecular hydrogen-bonding sites from intermolecular interactions. For this reason, the external nitrogen atom is protonated first, and then the internal one is protonated. The second proton switches the intramolecular hydrogen bonds to intermolecular hydrogen bonds. Diprotonated platform H 4 IP 2+ (PhSO 3-) 4 has the geometry of elastic 1,3-alternate, which is a molecular and anionic receptor. The equilibrium of the second stage protonation in water is completely shifted to the aquacomplex [H 4 IP 2+ (PhSO 3-) 4 ](H 2 O) 2 , which is formed due to the hydrogen and electrostatic binding of the solvent molecules on both receptor sites. Aquacomplex [H 4 IP ++ (PhSO 3-) 4 ](H 2 O) 2 is a monomer of linear J-aggregates self-assembly. The driving force of J-aggregates assembly is the formation of stronger anionic complexes as a result of water molecules intermolecular replacement by sulfonate groups of monomers.