A BODIPY boronium cation for the sensing of fluoride ions
Todd W Hudnall1, François P Gabbaï
1Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 26, 2008
Abstract:
In the presence of iodide ions, the cationic p-dimethylaminopyridine adduct of 1,3,5,7,8-pentamethylpyrromethene-boron fluoride [-DMAP](+) reacts with fluoride ions to afford the corresponding brightly fluorescent difluoride -F.
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