“…Many of these applications would greatly benefit from an inherent solubility of the porphyrins in aqueous media, i.e., not requiring any surfactants or liposome vesicles to mediate solubility. However, even though the methodologies for preparing synthetic porphyrins [ 29 , 30 ], hydroporphyrins [ 2 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ], and their analogues [ 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 ], have advanced enormously in the past decades, the vast majority of the synthetic porphyrinoids presented are not natively water-soluble, preventing—or at least complicating—their utilization in, for example, biological contexts.…”