%0 Journal Article %A Ray Leiva, César %A Schad, Christopher %A Avellanal-Zaballa, Edurne %A Moreno Jiménez, Florencio %A Bañuelos, Jorge %A Maroto, Beatriz Lora %A Moya Cerero, Santiago de la %T Exploring N-BODIPYs as Privileged Scaffolds to Build Off/On Fluorescent Sensors by PET %D 2019 %@ 2504-3900 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8286 %X A new N-boron dipyrromethene (N-BODIPY) substituted with a crown ether moiety has been synthesized by reaction of an F-BODIPY with a crown-ether-substituted bis(sulfonamide). The workability of this N-BODIPY as an off/on sensor for cations by modulation of a photoinduced electron transfer (PET) is explored. The new N-BODIPY demonstrates the possibilities of functionalization of these still unexplored but promising dyes. %~