Oxidative bromination reaction using vanadium catalyst and aluminum halide under molecular oxygen

The vanadium-catalyzed oxidative bromination reaction of arenes, alkenes, and alkynes was performed in the presence of AlBr3 to provide an alternative method for conventional bromination using hazardous bromine. The catalytic cycle is formed under molecular oxygen, which is more advantageous to vanadium bromoperoxidase (VBrPO) requiring hydrogen peroxide as a terminal oxidant.