Nitration of N-Confused Porphyrin.

The internal carbon of the inverted pyrrole in N-confused tetraphenylporphyrin 1 (5,10,15,20-tetraphenyl-2-aza-21-carbaporphyrin) was nitrated by using the following aqueous solutions at room temperature for several minutes; (1) NaNO2/HCl (yield 71%) and (2) 30 wt% nitric acid (yield 27%).