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Green grow the diarylmethanes: Substituted arenes and heteroarenes can be easily benzylated in the presence of inexpensive and relatively nontoxic metal salts such as FeCl3 (see scheme). This arylation method with benzyl alcohols is a state-of-the-art green route to diarylmethanes as water is the only by-product.
Iovel et al. (Wed,) studied this question.