The conditions for the porphyrin synthesis by condensation of α-unsubstituted dipyrromethanes and ortho-formicКлючевые слова: Синтез, дипирролилметаны, порфирины.Tetrapyrrolic macroheterocycles have found widespread application as new functional materials with useful properties. In particular, synthetic porphyrins and their metal complexes are widely used as model compounds for studies of biochemical processes, catalysts and medicinal drugs. Easily available meso-tetraarylporphyrins 1 and more related to natural β-octaalkylporphyrins 2 are the most common in practice. Some of them, like 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin 1 (Ar = Ph) and 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octaethylporphyrin 2 (Alk = Et) have symmetrically arranged substituents and are sufficiently soluble in organic solvents, unlike a more simple 2, 3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octamethyporphyrin 2 (Alk = Ме) which is almost not soluble in the majority of organic solvents.Of interest is a simple method of synthesis of β-substituted alkylporphyrins with the general structure of 6 by condensation of α-carboxydipyrromethanes 3 (Х = СООН) with triethyl-ortho-formate in the presence of an acid (Scheme 1).