Natural pigments containing four pyrrole rings joined by one-carbon units linking
position 2 of one pyrrole ring to position 5 of the next.
Porphyrins are macrocyclic tetrapyrroles. E.g. bilin (a linear tetrapyrrole).
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1371
InChI=1/C19H14N4/c1-3-14(20-9-1)11-16-5-7-18(22-16)13-19-8-6-17(23-19)12-15-4-2-10-21-15/h1-13,22H/b14-11+,15-12+,19-13+
PPRBOEHFGAHFGC-XPFFCHIZBA
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