Elsevier, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, (798), p. 209-213, 2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2015.05.009
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A series of four BODIPYs containing one or two ortho- or para-carborane clusters were synthesized using palladium(0)-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling or nucleophilic substitution reactions, at the 2,6- or the 8-positions of halogenated boron dipyrromethenes (BODIPYs). The spectroscopic, structural (including one X-ray) and in vitro BBB permeability of the BODIPYs using hCMEC/D3 brain endothelial cells were investigated.