Game, SET, and match: Aryl Grignard reagents undergo coupling with aryl halides when toluene is used as a solvent in combination with a small amount of tetrahydrofuran (see scheme). The reaction proceeds through an SRN1 mechanism, and does not require any transition metal catalysts.
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Shirakawa et al. (2011) studied this question.
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