@article {Juneja:2006:0039-7911:2877, author = "Juneja, Satinder", author = "Choudhary, Deepak", author = "Paul, Satya", author = "Gupta, Rajive", title = "In SituGenerated Zinc BromideCatalyzed Bromination of Alkanones in Water", journal = "Synthetic Communications", volume = "36", year = "2006", abstract = "α‐Bromination of alkanones with bromine catalyzed by in situ-generated zinc bromide from zinc dust and bromine in water is investigated. Bromination with dioxane‐dibromide as a source of bromine does not require zinc dust and provides selectively α‐mono and α,α‐dibromo products in excellent yields when water is used as solvent.", pages = "2877-2881(5)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/lsyc/2006/00000036/00000019/art00015" doi = "doi:10.1080/00397910600770714" }