Five easy, relatively inexpensive, and environmentally-safe aromatic oxidative iodination procedures are presented; three of them are particularly suitable for deactivated arenes. Nine deactivated arenes, four halobenzenes, benzene, toluene, and N, N-dimethylaniline were reacted upon with the following anhydrous systems: diiodine/NaIO 4 or (in four cases) NaIO 3/acetic anhydride/glacial acetic acid, acidified with varying amounts of concd (98%) ...