These auxiliaries can be attached to a specific functional group of the substrate molecule, enabling greater generality to EDA methodology across a much wider range of substrates. Upon photoexcitation, the EDA complex undergoes single-electron transfer (SET) to form a radical ion pair, which subsequently fragments to yield the desired neutral substrate radical (S • ) (Fig. ). Despite these advances, a significant limitation of current EDA methodologies lies in their use of the radicals generated upon fragmentation of the EDA complex. Most approaches rely on either highly pre-functionalised substrates for intramolecular reactions or use a narrow set of "radical traps" (e.g. silyl enol ethers, isocyanides, vinyl sulfones) as coupling partners. In this study, we overcome this limitation by demonstrating that electron-poor aromatic molecules can serve as versatile coupling partners for alkyl radicals generated via EDA fragmentation thereby establishing a more general sp 2 -sp 3 coupling method.