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  1. Abstract Diaryliodonium salts continue to emerge as versatile arylation reagents. This is especially true for unsymmetrical aryl(TMP)iodonium salts (TMP = 2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl) because they undergo highly selective aryl transfer across diverse mechanistic settings. This account outlines our motivation for exploring the chemistry of aryl(TMP)iodonium salts and our efforts to develop streamlined synthetic methods to access them and the novel arylation reactions that use them. 
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    Free, publicly-accessible full text available July 1, 2026
  2. Abstract We describe the development of a C–O coupling reaction between aryl(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)iodonium salts and aliphatic alcohols under weak base conditions. The scope of the reaction is presented, with 16 examples ranging in yield from moderate to high (54–96%). The limitations of the reaction are also presented. Mechanistic experiments reveal a complex network of reactions that include side reactions that generate arynes and oxidize the alcohol nucleophile. 
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  4. Diaryliodonium-amine complexes are proposed as key intermediates in C–N coupling reactions. The Lewis basicity of synthetically relevant amines are quantified on the Legault iodonium Lewis acidity scale. 
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  6. Halogen bonding permeates many areas of chemistry. A wide range of halogen-bond donors including neutral, cationic, monovalent, and hypervalent have been developed and studied. In this work we used density functional theory (DFT), natural bond orbital (NBO) theory, and quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) to analyze aryl halogen-bond donors that are neutral, cationic, monovalent and hypervalent and in each series we include the halogens Cl, Br, I, and At. Within this diverse set of halogen-bond donors, we have found trends that relate halogen bond length with the van der Waals radii of the halogen and the non-covalent or partial covalency of the halogen bond. We have also developed a model to calculate ΔGof halogen-bond formation by the linear combination of the % p-orbital character on the halogen and energy of the σ-hole on the halogen-bond donor. 
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