“…The design was based on the previously reported oxidative deboronation of aryl boronates to the corresponding phenolic products ( Scheme 1A ) (Ainley and Challenger, 1930 ; Kuivila, 1954 ). Since then, boronate-based molecular probes have emerged as potential tools for detecting several biological oxidants: H 2 O 2 (Lo and Chu, 2003 ; Chang et al, 2004 ), peroxynitrite (Sikora et al, 2009 ), hypochlorous acid (Sikora et al, 2009 ), organic hydroperoxides (Michalski et al, 2014 ), and peroxymonocarbonate (Truzzi and Augusto, 2017 ; Rios et al, 2020 ). This relatively simple oxidation reaction has been utilized in the design of a wide variety of redox probes, with the detection modalities including spectrophotometry (Lo and Chu, 2003 ; Zhan et al, 2010 ; Lu et al, 2011 ; Choudhury et al, 2019 ), fluorescence (Chang et al, 2004 ; Miller et al, 2005 , 2007 ; Dickinson et al, 2010 ; Zielonka et al, 2012b ), chemiluminescence (Green et al, 2017a , b ; Seven et al, 2017 ; Gnaim and Shabat, 2019 ; Calabria et al, 2020 ), bioluminescence (Van De Bittner et al, 2010 ; Wu et al, 2014 ; Szala et al, 2020 ), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (Sikora et al, 2009 , 2013 ; Zielonka et al, 2014 ), mass spectrometry (Cochemé et al, 2011 ; Zielonka et al, 2016b ), and PET (positron emission tomography) imaging (Carroll et al, 2014 ).…”