“…Many reagents like Copper(II)bromide [20], N,N-dimethylformamide [21], 1,4-dioxanebromooxoniumbromide [22], tribromoacetophenone [23], N-bromosaccharin [24], tribromoacetyl-tetrabutylammonium bromides [6], human esoinophils [25], peroxo-Mntetrabutylammoniumbromides [7,8], bromide-bromates [12], acylammonium salts-LDA quenches with bromine [26], benzylic bromides [27], pyridiniumbromide perbromide [28] and pyridinium bromochromate [29] have been utilized for the bromination of organic substrates. The reagents like Me 2 NSO 2 Cl and N,N-dimethylamines [30], (CH 3 O) 4 Sitetra-alkylorthosilicates in presence of Pd [31], t-BuOOC--CuBr [32], CO-CH 3 OH-i-PrNEt 2 with Pd [33], TFFH [34], dimethyl formamide-dipropylacetal or dimethylformamide-di-isopropylacetal with pyridine [14,15], 4-(4,6-dimethoxy-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)-4-methyl-morpholiniumchloride, N-methyl-2-bromo pyridinium iodide, N-methyl-2-chloropyridinium iodide and N-methyl-2-bromopyridinium tosylates [35], metal salt in liquid EDTA [36], Lewis acids and bases [37][38][39] have been employed for esterification of acids, acid chlorides, ethers, alcohols, halo alkanes, alkenes and salt derivatives. Herein the author reports an effective method for bromination selectively at the side chain in a 4-substituted 1-naphthyl ketones with potassium bromide-bromate mixture (Winkler's reagent) in the presence of fly-ash in water medium.…”