Porphyrin structure

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chemical structure

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• The implied dihydro porphyrin structure is no longer assumed.
• One example of a modifiable porphyrin structure is shown in the figure below.
• The whole porphyrin structure is called the prosthetic group, a general term in protein chemistry to refer to non-polypeptide portions of the molecule that are usually the functionally active sites.
• Porphyrin structure is an important factor in determining the affinity of binding, as shown by the relative inhibitory effectiveness.
• It has been shown recently that a porphyrin structure is often accurately described by the displacements occurring only along the lowest-frequency normal-mode coordinates of each symmetry (minimum basis) representing the normal deformations, even for highly distorted macrocycles [15,16,31].

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