“…The physical and spectral data are analogous to those previously described. 27 2-(2-Methoxyphenyl)pyridine (3c). 26 The procedure is as described for 2a but using 2-fluoropyridine (87 µL, 97 mg, 1.0 mmol) instead of 3-fluoropyridine, 2-methoxyphenylmagnesium bromide (1.2 mmol) in THF (1.2 mL) instead of PhMgCl, and Ni(acac) 2 (13 mg, 50 µmol) and dppp (21 mg, 50 µmol) instead of NiCl2(dppe): yield 79% (eluent CH2Cl2/Et2O, 95:5); 1 H NMR (CDCl3) δ 3.87 (s, 3H), 7.02 (d, 1H, J ) 8.3 Hz), 7.09 (t, 1H, J ) 7.5 Hz), 7.2 (m, 1H), 7.37 (td, 1H, J ) 7.8, 1.7 Hz), 7.7 (m, 3H), 8.71 (dd, 1H, J ) 4.3, 1.2 Hz); 13 C NMR (CDCl3) δ 56.…”