The Au(25)(SR)(18)/CeO(2) nanocluster catalyst showed high activity in the homocoupling of aryl iodides (e.g. up to 99.8% yield with iodobenzene) and excellent recyclability.

In the vast majority of atom transfer radical polymerizations, alkyl bromides or chlorides are commonly employed as initiators. Herein, iodides demonstrated ATRP

A macrocyclic aromatic pyridone pentamer was shown to catalyze highly efficient transition-metal-free arylations of unactivated aromatic C-H bonds with aryl iodides and bromides in the presence of potassium tert-butoxide.

The rate of hydrodehalogenation of aryl iodides with a palladium catalyst in methanol exhibits a strong primary kinetic isotope effect from both CD3OD and CH3OD, suggesting that deprotonation plays a major role in the mechanism.

Inexpensive nickel-bipyridine complexes were found to be active for the trifluoromethylthiolation of aryl iodides and aryl bromides at room temperature using the convenient [NMe(4)][SCF(3)] reagent.

A convenient method has been developed, which allows for the direct transformation of aryl iodides into the corresponding carboxylic acid anhydrides via Pd-catalyzed carbonylation under atmospheric CO pressure.

2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazoles were highly selectively synthesized via the Pd(0)-catalyzed coupling-cyclization reaction of 4-non-substituted 2-substituted 2,3-allenyl hydrazines with aryl iodides in moderate to good yields.

The use of catalytic t-Bu-P4 base dramatically improved the performance of halogen-zinc exchange of aryl iodides, and the arylzinc derivatives were functionalized under copper-free reaction conditions.