S1 Supporting Information Carbolithiation of meso-Aryl-Substituted 5,15-Diazaporphyrin Selectively Provides 3-Alkylated Diazachlorins Ayaka Yamaji, Satoru Hiroto, Ji-Young Shin and Hiroshi Shinokubo* Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. E-mail: hshino@apchem.nagoya-u.ac.jp Table of Contents Instrumentation and Materials ………………………………………………………… S2 General Procedures and Compound Data ……………………………………………… S2 NMR Spectra of Compounds ………………………………………………………… S8 Cyclic Voltammograms of 3a and 4a ……………………………………………… S18 Theoretical Calculations ……………………………………………………………… S19 Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Chemical Communications This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013