Natural pigments containing a fundamental skeleton of four pyrrole nuclei united through
the α-positions by four methine groups to form a macrocyclic structure (porphyrin
is designated porphine in Chemical Abstracts indexes).
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1360
InChI=1/C20H14N4/c1-2-14-10-16-5-6-18(23-16)12-20-8-7-19(24-20)11-17-4-3-15(22-17)9-13(1)21-14/h1-12,21,24H/b13-9-,14-10-,15-9-,16-10-,17-11-,18-12-,19-11-,20-12-
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