Abstract
A mild and selective procedure for the bromination of activated arenes using o-iodoxybenzoic acid and tetraethylammonium bromide is presented. The reactions were carried out at room temperature and gave moderate to excellent yields.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Authors thank the University Grants Commission (UGC), India, for financial support.
Notes
a Reactions were performed on a 5 mmol scale using 1.1 equiv. of IBX with TEAB. Reactions were monitored by TLC and GC analysis on 5% OV-17 (6′, 1/8″) column and FID detector.
b Isolated yields.