Boron tribromide, ReagentPlus, >=99%

Application

Reactant for preparation of:•Drug intermediate 6-nitro-L-DOPA•Luminescent polystyrene derivatives with sterically protected carbazolylborane moieties•High-quality boron-doped graphene via Wurtz-type reductive coupling reaction•Mercapto-(+)-methamphetamine haptens for synthesis of (+)-methamphetamine conjugate vaccines with improved epitope densities•Micrometer-sized organic molecule-DNA hybrid structures•Borane complexes via electrophilic aromatic borylation reactions•A 5-HT2C receptor agonist•Biphenyl-derivatives possessing tertiary amino groups as β-secretase(BACE1) inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer′s disease•A highly near-IR region fluorescent p-extended boron aza-dipyrromethene moiety unit•Tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives via intramolecular cyclization of methoxy-substituted N-phenethylimides

Used to cleave aryl methyl ethers in a synthesis of a benzopyranobenzopyran from a coumarin scaffold.

General description

Boron tribromide is a strong Lewis acid generally employed in the deprotection of -OH and -NH groups. It is a moisture-sensitive liquid, which is also used to cleave esters or ethers into alkyl bromides.

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Packaging

4×25, 100, 500 g in Sure/Seal™