Aryl halides, in general, have become one of the more useful reactants and intermediates in synthetic chemistry, materials chemistry, and medicine. Several famous reactions begin with aryl bromides, including the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction, Suzuki cross-coupling reaction, and Stille cross-coupling reaction. The aforementioned reactions prove extremely useful, each having won Nobel prizes for their utility in forming new organic products such as aryl alkynes, conjugated aryl ring systems, and aryl alkenes, respectively. This project aims to expand the utility of boron tribromide as a Lewis acid and a source of bromine by decomposing dialkyltriazenes into their respective aryl bromides.

Boron tribromide catalyzed dialkyltriazene decomposition

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