“…(Difluoroiodo)arenes are potentially useful fluorinating reagents, but they have found only limited practical application due to the low stability and lack of convenient methods of preparation . They are commonly prepared by the reaction of (dichloroiodo)arenes with aqueous hydrofluoric acid and mercuric oxide or by the electrochemical oxidation of para -substituted iodobenzenes in the presence of Et 3 N· 3HF. − Polyfluoro-substituted (difluoroiodo)benzenes can also be prepared by fluorination of the respective iodoarenes with fluorine, xenon difluoride, or other powerful fluorinating reagents. − Frohn and co-workers investigated the preparation of C 6 F 5 IF 2 and related iododifluorides by oxidative fluorination of the appropriate iodides using F 2 , ClF, CF 3 OCl, BrF 5 , C 6 F 5 BrF 2 , C 6 F 5 BrF 4 , and XeF 2 . , The highest purity and yield of C 6 F 5 IF 2 was achieved by a low-temperature fluorination with F 2 84a. Prepared in this work, C 6 F 5 IF 2 was fully characterized by multinuclear NMR, IR, Raman spectroscopy and X-ray structural analysis 84a.…”