Résumé : The photosensitive 4-azido-2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-1-benzoyl core has been connected to maleimide-, chloroacetyloxy-, or succinimidyl carbonate motifs through various spacers to furnish a series of bifunctional linkers. One linker (7a) has been used for the construction of a biosensor for β-lactam antibiotic detection by attenuated total reflectance FTIR (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. Linkers featuring a photosensitive aryl azide motif at one end and a function reactive toward nucleophiles at the other end are described. One linker is used for the construction of a biosensor for β-lactam antibiotic detection by attenuated total reflectance FTIR spectroscopy. Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.