The porphyrin molecules contain four pyrrole rings linked via methane bridges. They are tetradentate ligand, in which the space available for the coordinated metal ion has a maximum diameter of approximately 3.7 Å. Porphyrins and their complexes with metal ions play important role in several biological as well as catalytic systems. They are involved in dioxygen transport and storage, photosynthesis or electron transfer. Due to strong complexing properties and catalytic behaviour, porphyrins and metaloporphyrins have found numerous applications in analytical chemistry. Several porphyrins become useful as the high sensitive chromogenic reagents. The stable complexes between transition metals and porphyrin ligands enable coordinating interaction with additional ligands above and below the molecule plane, so these compounds are used as components of membranes of ion selective electrodes in potentiometry and voltammetry. Several porphyrins find applications as optical sensors and biosensors. Due to the mixed mechanism of interaction between porphyrin macrocycle and various solutes, porphyrins find interesting applications as stationary phases in HPLC for separation of aromatic carboxylates, sulfonates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fullerenes as well as amino acids and peptides. In capillary electrophoresis these compounds found application as the derivatizing agents. Porphyrins could be also used as a modifier in solid phase extraction technique or the selective ligands for enrichment of some transition metals.
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