Various unsymmetrical diaryl selenides can be synthesized from aryl iodides and diphenyl diselenide by an addition of magnesium metal in the presence of a copper catalyst. This method can exploit efficiently two phenylselenide-molecules generated from diphenyl diselenide under neutral conditions.
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Taniguchi et al. (2003) studied this question.