“…The aryl dibromides 3,5-dibromonitrobenzene (Vogel, 1989), 3,5-dibromoaniline (Crowther et al, 1951), 3,5-dibromophenol (Koelsch, 1939;Barber and Slack, 1947) and 3,5-dibromo-1-chlorobenzene (Vogel, 1989), were prepared according to the literature. The 3,5-dibromo-1-f1uorobenzene, 3,5-dibromotoluene and 1,3,5-tribromobenzene were commercially available.…”