“…In chlorins (4), bacteriochlorins (12,13), dihydrobacteriochlorins (14), 1 and corphin dications (15), 2 one or more of the macrocyclic peripheral double bonds are reduced 14 15 without loss of the macrocyclic conjugation as evidenced, for example, by the aromatic (4,12,13,14) and antiaromatic (15) ring-current effects, respectively, in their nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectra. 3 In the nonaromatic hydroporphyrins, the cyclic conjugation is usually interrupted at one or more of the bridging methine positions, leaving one to four conjugated pyrrole subunits (structures 5,6,9,10,16).…”