Bromide-mediated oxidations of organic compounds

Publisher Summary The beauty of bromide-mediated oxidations is that they combine mechanistic complexity with practical simplicity and, hence, utility. They involve an intricate array of electron transfer steps in which bromine atoms function as go-betweens in transferring the oxidizing power of peroxidic intermediates, via redox metal ions, to the substrate. Because the finer mechanistic details of these elegant processes have often not been fully appreciated it is felt that their full synthetic potential has not yet been realized.