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(Fe(acac)₃), after workup with NaOH to hydrolyze the ester, shown as follows. Without the Fe(acac)₃, the Grignard reagent would attack the ester group over the aryl halide.

For the coupling of aryl halides with aryl Grignard reagents, nickel chloride in tetrahydrofuran

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