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Transition-Metal-Free Decarboxylative Bromination of Aromatic Carboxylic Acids

The brominative decarboxylation  reaction was demonstrated over a hundred and fifty years ago by Borodin (the famous composer, whose day job was as Professor of Organic Chemistry) and later developed by Hunsdiecker, whose name the reaction now bears. From an industrial viewpoint the transformation would be useful but the need to have a stoichiometric silver

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