With a general set of conditions and optimized access to RAEs 10 and 11 in hand, the scope of this methodology was evaluated across a range of aryl iodides (and an aryl bromide) as shown in Table . Many functional groups that would be problematic in conventional cross-couplings are well tolerated in this transformation. For instance, ortho-substituted arenes do not diminish reactivity (17b, 17d, 17e, 17o, 18d). Boronic ester and halide-containing arenes can be employed (17c, 17f, 17o, 17p, 18c, 18d). Reducible functionality such as free aldehydes 17i and 18b or nitrile 17e can be employed. The presence of sulfur atoms does not inhibit the reaction (17d, 17m, 17n). Easily oxidizable electron-rich arenes remain unscathed in this coupling (17h, 17q, 18a). Of note, highly oxidatively sensitive motifs such as free phenols and anilines participate smoothly (17g, 18b, 18c).