A new room-temperature ionic liquid has been synthesized from 2,2'-bipyridine. This liquid improved the copper-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions between perfluoroalkyl or pentafluorophenyl halides and aryl iodides. Good recyclability using this solvent system was observed.
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Xiao et al. (2005) studied this question.