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. 2021 Nov 17;34(2):333–363. doi: 10.1002/chir.23393

SCHEME 3.

SCHEME 3

Tetraarylporphyrins as “superbenzoates.” The Soret band can be described as a circular oscillator arising from the combination of two orthogonal TDMs. Due to the libration depicted by the purple arrow, the transverse component couples less effectively, and the exciton coupling is dominated by the longitudinal component that behaves as the effective TDM