supported by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21272048);Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2015BQ012);the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry (to J. Li)
A facile synthesis for cyanochlorin related to chlorophyll from a formyl-substituted chlorin, by the oxidation of methyl (pyro)pheophorbide-a, was accomplished. These readily available chlorin aldehydes were assembl...