Treatment of secondary or tertiary alkyl bromides with alkyl Grignard reagents in the presence of catalytic amounts of silver bromide and potassium fluoride in CH2Cl2 afforded the corresponding cross-coupling products in reasonable yields. Moreover, silver showed catalytic activity for the cross-coupling reactions of alkyl bromides with aryl Grignard reagents.
[Burns, Dennis H.; Miller, Jeffrey D.; Chan, Ho-Kit; Delaney, Michael O. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1997 , vol. 119, # 9 p. 2125 - 2133]
[Burns, Dennis H.; Miller, Jeffrey D.; Chan, Ho-Kit; Delaney, Michael O. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1997 , vol. 119, # 9 p. 2125 - 2133]