Crystal structure of a remarkably ruffled nonplanar porphyrin (pyridine)[5,10,15,20-tetra(tert-butyl)porphyrinato]zinc(II)

Abstract

The title compound presents the first example of a sterically ruffled porphyrin bearing only meso substituents; the degree of ruffling is severe, with C_m-displacements of up to 1 Å.