“…The most conventional brominating agent remains topically Br 2 , although it is hazardous and difficult in handling together with poor atom efficiency. A large panel of brominating reagents have been thus developed, including molecular bromine with or without catalysts [6][7][8][9], N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) [10-13], 1,3-dibromodimethylhydantoin (DBDMH) [13,14], N,N-dibromo-p-toluenesulfonamide (TsNBr 2 ) [15], KBrO 3 [16], or quaternary ammonium tribromide [17][18][19], etc. All of the aforementioned reagents are used in stoichiometry amount, more or less efficient, expensive, toxic, not commercially available and lead to large amounts of wastes at the end of the reaction.…”