Lundrigan, TravisCameron, T. StanleyThompson, Alison2018-11-022018-11-022014Lundrigan, Travis, Cameron, T. Stanley, Thompson, Alison. (2014). Activation and deprotection of F-BODIPYs using boron trihalides. Chemical Communications, 50(53), 7028-7031. DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02706Jhttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/74932Post-printThe activation of F-BODIPYs with boron trihalides, followed by treatment with a nuclephile, effects facile substitution at boron; using water as the nucleophile promotes deprotective removal of the–BF2 moiety and thereby production of the corresponding 10 parent dipyrrin salt in quantitative yield under extremely mild conditions.Article