Phenol preparation from Grignard reagent
As requested by the OP - the route that lab chemists use to form phenols from aryl halides (not aryl fluorides) is via formation of the aryl boronic acid or boronate. These may be formed by either metallation of the aryl halides to form the aryl lithium or Grignard and reaction with a trialkyl borate $\ce{B(OR)3}$, or by Pd catalysed reaction with pinacol borane (Suzuki-Miyaura reaction). These boronates or boronic acids may be isolated, but in practice an oxidative workup, most often with basic peroxide, yields the phenol in good to excellent yield.

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