“…Compared with common nitrogen ligands, porphyrins, which are tetradentate pincer ligands, can provide more stable palladium complexes suitable for Heck reactions (Wan & Liu, 2009). However, palladium-porphyrin homogeneous catalysts have two drawbacks that limit their practical applications in synthetic chemistry and industrial processes (Rahiman, Rajesh, Shanmuga Bharathi, Sreedaran, & Narayanan, 2006;Moghadam, Tangestaninejad, Habibi, & Mirkhani, 2004;Moghadam, Tangestaninejad, Mirkhani, Mohammadpoor-Baltork, & Kargar, 2005;Naik, Joshi, Umbarkar, & Deshpande, 2005). (1) The porphyrin ring is liable to oxidative self-destruction and palladium-porphyrins are prone to aggregation through p-p interactions.…”