Photoaffinity labeling is a powerful method in the study of biological structures and functions. 1,2) The method is suitable for the analysis of biological interactions based on the affinity of ligands to receptors. Various photophores, such as phenyldiazirine, arylazide, and benzophenone have been used. Comparative irradiation studies of these three photophors in living cells suggested that a carbene precursor (3-trifluoromethyl)phenyldiazirine is the most promising for in vivo applications.3) However, the complicated synthesis of the diazirinyl ring has resulted in fewer applications for the diazirines in biomolecular studies than other photophors. We have already established the first versatile approach to simplify the time-consuming methods currently used for diazirine synthesis, by starting from only a few simple diazirines, e.g. m-methoxy-phenyldiazirine, which can be synthesized on a large scale. 4) Direct substitution on phenyldiazirines (post-functional modification) gave a family of substituted phenyldiazirines without the need to repeat all the steps of diazirine synthesis from the beginning.5-7) Some tags are needed on photophor to detect photolabeled components. Radiolabeled photophors are used for high sensitive detection. But the synthesis and handling of radiolabeled compounds is quite complicated. We have attempted to resolve these difficulties with a combination of avidin-biotin systems (photoaffinity biotinylation). 8,9) The recent development of mass spectrometry has enabled us to identify important structures in target biomolecules. 10) Elucidation of the different mass numbers, derived from a mixture of unlabeled and stable-isotope labeled photophors, may be useful to identify a photolabeled ligand-biomolecule complex on the MS spectrum. However, to the best of our knowledge, a few protocols for the synthesis of a stable-isotope labeled diazirinyl photophor have been reported. 11) b-Bromostyrenes are extremely useful intermediates in organic synthesis. Their use as precursors to vinyl anions, 12) and as coupling partners in a wide range of transition metal-mediated coupling reactions, 13) has stimulated a great deal of interest. There have been several reports about the stereoselective synthesis of (E)-and (Z)-b-bromostyrene isomers, [14][15][16][17][18] but the application of these synthetic methods to diazirinyl compounds was not reported. The simple synthesis of diazirinyl (E)-and (Z)-b-bromostyrene have been required in the stereoselective preparation of conjugated photoreactive polyene and enynes. The conventional synthesis of b-bromostyrene isomers requires reduction steps which may also reduce diazirinyl nitrogen-nitrogen double bond. Here, we would like to describe the first effective, stereoselective synthesis of diazirinyl b-bromostyrenes from diazirinyl aldehyde 1a, b, 5,6) and deuterium introductions to diazirinyl b-bromostyrenes, with commercially available reagents.To achieve the stereoselective synthesis of diazirinyl bbromostyrene, diazirinyl b,b-dibromostyrenes, 2a, b may b...