S. Raina et al., FACILE BROMINATION OF O-BENZYLIDENE SUGAR AND THP ETHERS WITH NBS IN CHLOROFORM IN THE PRESENCE OF AIBN, Synthetic communications, 26(1), 1996, pp. 121-125
N-Bromosuccinimide in chloroform in the presence of a catalytic amount
of AIBN is found to cleave O-benzylidene sugar into bromobenzoate in
efficient manner. THP-ethers were cleaved into bromides and bromo-este
rs in high yield.