Water surprise! A simple and practical copper-catalyzed approach to substituted phenols by hydroxylation of aryl halides has been developed by using environmentally benign water as the solvent (see scheme). The method proceeds under mild conditions and is tolerant towards various functional groups in the substrates.
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