1. (a) Borodin, A. Ann. 1861, 119, 121-123. Aleksandr Porfirevič Borodin (1833-1887) was born in St. Petersburg, the illegitimate son of a prince. He prepared methyl bromide from silver acetate in 1861, but another eighty years elapsed before Heinz and Cläre Hunsdiecker converted Borodin's synthesis into a general method, the Hunsdiecker or Hunsdiecker-Borodin reaction. Borodin was also an accomplished composer and is now best known for his musical masterpiece, opera Prince Igor. He kept a piano outside his laboratory. a Hunsdiecker, H.
2. Hunsdiecker, C. Ber. 1942, 75, 291-297. Cläre Hunsdiecker was born in 1903 and educated in Cologne. She developed the bromination of silver carboxylate alongside her husband, Heinz.
3. Sheldon, R. A.; Kochi, J. K. Org. React. 1972, 19, 326-421. (Review).
4. Barton, D. H. R.; Crich, D.; Motherwell, W. B. Tetrahedron Lett. 1983, 24, 4979-4982.
5. Crich, D. In Comprehensive Organic Synthesis; Trost, B. M.; Steven, V. L., Eds.; Pergamon, 1991, Vol. 7, pp 723-734. (Review).