This article reports the first perbromination of β-pyrrole and meso-phenyl groups of the 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(3ʼ,5ʼ-dimethoxyphenyl)porphinato copper(II) to generate highly brominated porphyrin, 2, 3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octabromo-5,10,15,20-tetrakis(2ʼ,6ʼ-dibromo-3ʼ,5ʼ-dimethoxyphenyl)-porphinato copper(II), CuT(3ʼ,5ʼ-DMP)PBr 16 complex. Its crystal structure exhibited unusual five-coordination geometry with saddle shaped conformation of the porphyrin core. H 2 T(3ʼ,5ʼ-DMP)PBr 16 and its metal complexes exhibited large anodic shift of oxidation potentials with marginal changes in reduction potentials relative to their corresponding octabromotetraphenylporphyri n, MTPPBr 8 derivatives. The enhanced electron deficiency of the ZnT(3ʼ,5ʼ-DMP)PBr 16 complex was probed by axial ligation of various Lewis bases with differing pK a values. The ZnT(3ʼ,5ʼ-DMP)PBr 16 complex exhibited decrease in equilibrium constants for the ligation of bases relative to sterically unhindered ZnTPPBr 8 . This has been ascribed to the sterics induced by the bulky ortho-bromo phenyl substituents that prevents the facile binding of Lewis bases to the Zn(II)-center.