“…20 Among noncovalent approaches, the axial coordination of metalloporphyrin is quite convenient for the construction of multiporphyrin assemblies. 4 Because of easy manipulation and large association stability, nitrogen ligands 21 such as pyridines, 6 9 10 , 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 imidazoles, 3 , 36 37 38 aminopyrimidines, 39 and amines 40 41 42 contribute an overwhelming majority of the axial ligands of metalloporphyrin for constructing self-complementary dimeric, cyclic, dendritic, and oligomeric metalloporphyrin assemblies. For example, Kobuke has reported the synthesis of N -methylimidazole–Zn-porphyrin dimer in a slipped cofacial orientation 43 as well as macrocyclic porphyrin arrays by complementary coordination of m -bis(ethynylene)phenylene-linked imidazolylporphyrin.…”