
%0 Journal Article
%A Clezy, PS 
%A Tonkin, K 
%T The Chemistry of Pyrrolic Compounds. LX. Reaction of Photoprotoporphyrin-IX Dimethyl Ester With Cyanide Ion
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1987/02/01
%V 40
%N 2
%P 413-416
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9870413
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9870413 
%X Reaction of the a,&#946;-unsaturated aldehyde system of photoprotoporphyrin IX dimethyl ester with cyanide ion yields a porphyrin with an acetamide side chain. Mechanistically, the reaction can be viewed as an intramolecular hydrolysis of the cyanide adduct driven by a return to a macrocycle with the porphyrin conjugation pathway. 
