iodinanes, which undergo [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement. The lack of crossover products argues for the intramolecularity of the rearrangement. When both ortho positions of aryliodinanes are occupied with alkyl substituents, the reductive iodonio-Claisen rearrangement affords meta substitution products. This is the first to show that meta-Claisen rearrangementoccurs preferentially even when a free para