“…As such, there is an eed for an ew and orthogonal functional group,a nd we targeted the trialkyl germanium functionality.T his nontoxic [21] class of reagents offers high stability against moisture,a ir,a cids and bases, [22b] and has shown promise in reactions with molecular halogens. [19] We recently uncovered that aryl germanes displayed privileged and orthogonal reactivities in metal catalysis over alternative functionalities, [22,23] and therefore envisioned that potentially orthogonal halogenations might also be feasible,which might unleash access to selective multi-halogenation of molecules.…”