A mild, efficient, and highly regio- and stereoselective method for the methoxy and ethoxy bromination of olefins has been developed using NH4Br as a bromine source and Oxone as an oxidant. Various kinds of olefins (aromatic, linear, and cyclic olefins) afforded the corresponding alkoxy brominated products in moderate to excellent yields. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications (R) for the following free supplemental resources: Full experimental and spectral details.]
Regioselective difunctionalization of alkene: A simple access to haloether, haloesters and halohydrins
regioselective 1,2-difunctionalization of alkenes, which is a simple and efficient method for the preparation of haloethers, haloesters and halohydrins using alcohol as nucleophiles with inexpensive and commercially available N-halosuccinimide (NXS) as the halogenating reagent with low catalyst loading under mild reaction condition. The methodology is also applicable for the easy access of various alkenes such