“…For instance, they could couple with nucleophilic heteroatoms such as oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus to enable electrophilic arylation reactions even under transition-metal-free conditions. Moreover, they could facilely react with less nucleophilic carbon skeletons of arenes, alkenes, alkynes, ,,,, and allenes for C–C bond forming reactions mostly via palladium and copper catalysis. Although a large number of new transformations involving the π-systems and the diaryliodonium salts have been documented, their reaction patterns were mainly limited to either the Heck-type processes or the 1,2-difunctionalizations of π bonds, ,,, particularly for alkynes.…”