Andrieux

An alternative route (Andrieux s method) is the electrolysis of fused salts such as molten... 

On the basis of all these results and his own investigations on chloro- and bromo-de-diazoniations (Galli, 1981), Galli proposed in 1988 that iodo-de-diazoniation, after formation of the aryl radical in the initiation reaction (Scheme 10-22) follows three coupled iodination chain reactions based on the formation of the I2 molecule and the If anion in the step shown in Scheme 10-23, namely iodine atom (I ) addition (Scheme 10-24), and iodine abstraction from I2 and If in Schemes 10-25 and 10-26 respectively. Aryl radicals and iodine molecules are regenerated as indicated in Scheme 10-27. The addition of iodide ion to aryl radicals forming the radical anion [Arl] -, as in Scheme 10-28, is considered an unlikely pathway, as that reaction has been found to be reversible (Lawless and Hawley, 1969 Andrieux et al. 1979). 

Andrieux CP, Dumas-Bouchiat JM, Saveant JM (1978) J. Elelectroanal. Chem. 87 39... 

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