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Chemiluminescent read-out of para-fluoro-thiol reaction events
Fabian R Bloesser1, Federica Cavalli, Sarah L Walden
1School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia. leonie.barner@qut.edu.au christopher.barnerkowollik@qut.edu.au.
Abstract:
We exploit the fluoride that is released via the para-fluoro-thiol reaction (PFTR) to cleave silyl ethers, turning the PFTR into an effective self-reporting chemiluminescence (CL) probe. The cleavage induces chemiluminescence and hence provides an optical read-out for the conversion of the PFTR. The PFTR chemiluminescence read-out is established on small molecule thiols, and subsequently expanded to polymers and networks.

