An extremely facile coupling reaction between arylmagnesium compounds and THF by means of an iodoalkane-EtMgBr system provides 2-aryltetrahydrofurans. One-pot synthesis of 2-thienyltetrahydrofuran is achieved from thiophene and THF using this coupling reaction.
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Inoue et al. (1999) studied this question.