The activation of F-BODIPYs with boron trihalides, followed by treatment with a nucleophile, effects facile substitution at boron; using water as the nucleophile promotes deprotective removal of the –BF2 moiety and thereby production of the corresponding parent dipyrrin salt in quantitative yield under extremely mild conditions.
T. Lundrigan, T. S. Cameron and A. Thompson, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 7028 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02706J
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