To an oven-dried Schlenk flask equipped with a stir bar were added [Ir(dFppy)2Cl]2 (103 mg, 0.08 mmol, 1 equiv.), [iCzmiH][I] (80 mg, 0.18 mmol, 2.1 equiv.) and silver oxide (60 mg, 0.25 mmol, 3 equiv.) and degassed by three vacuum/nitrogen cycles. Degassed 2-ethoxyethanol (25 mL) was added and the mixture was heated at 130 o C for 24 hours. The green mixture was cooled to room temperature, diluted with DCM (40 mL) and filtered through a short celite plug to remove insoluble silver salts using DCM as eluent. The filtrate was collected and concentrated under reduced pressure. The crude reaction mixture was purified by column chromatography (20% DCM in petroleum ether) and the product was isolated as a yellow solid. Yield: 14% (15 mg). Rf = 0.24 in 1:1 DCM:Hexane.