Development of new electrosynthetic chemistry promises to impact the efficiency and sustainability of organic synthesis. Here we demonstrate that anodically generated hypervalent iodine intermediates effectively couple interfacial electron transfer with oxidative C-H/N-H coupling chemistry. The developed hypervalent iodine electrocatalysis is applicable in both intraand intermolecular C-N bond-forming reactions. Available mechanistic data indicates that anodic oxidation of aryl iodides generates a transient I(II) intermediate that is critically stabilized by added acetate ions. This report represents the first example of metal-free hypervalent iodine electrocatalysis for C-H functionalization and provides mechanistic insight that we anticipate will contribute to the development of hypervalent iodine mediators for synthetic electrochemistry.Electrochemistry is an attractive approach to sustainable synthesis that obviates the need for stoichiometric redox reagents and thus, generation of the attendant waste streams. 1 Due to its inherent tunability and scalability, electrosynthesis should impact many of the enormous variety of organic transformations in which electrons are added to, or removed from, substrates. In practice, challenges such as 1) the sluggish interfacial electron transfer rates for many organic molecules, which necessitates application of substantial overpotential to achieve practical current densities, 2 and 2) the need to couple the single-electron events that are typical of electrochemistry with the multi-electron events required for bond-breaking and -making in organic reactions, can