Radical vinylation of alkyl iodides with vinyl bromides proceeds smoothly with ac ombinedP d/light/ Hanztsch ester system. In this reaction system,t he Hanztsch ester acts as an effective reducing reagent of Pd II to Pd 0 that generates key alkyl radicals via single electron transfer (SET) with alkyl iodides upon photo-excitation.Transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions provide au seful meansf or CÀCb ond formingp rocesses and recent effort has been directed to expandt he substrate scope to include sp 3 -hybridized alkyl halides. [1,2] We have been engaged in developingaseries of cascade reactions of alkyl iodides, CO, and alkenes using aP d/light combined system. [3][4][5] Recently we reportedt hat using aP d/light combined system, Giese-type reactions of alkyl iodides with electron deficient alkenes proceed in the presence of Hanztsch ester as the hydrogen source. [6] The first step of the Pd/light system is SET between Pd 0 and R-I to form the RC and Pd I -I pair and we thought that the Pd/ light system would thus be usefula lso for radicalv inylation employing vinyl bromides.[7] To achieve the equivalent reaction of the Mizoroki-Heck reaction of alkyl halides [Eq. (1), Scheme 1],w ep ostulated that the Pd/light-induced radical addition/fragmentation sequence was promising[ Eq. (2), Scheme 2]. [8,9] If key radicals speciesa re generated from alkyl halides, the leaving BrC has to be converted to an alkyl radical in order to sustain the radical chain. Currently,aseries of vinylation reactions by radical addition/fragmentation sequences are known, using vinyltins, [10] vinyl sulfides, [11] vinyl sulfones, [12] nitroalkenes, [13] vinylindiums, [14] vinylgalliums, [14b] vinyl chlorides, [15] and vinyl bromides. [16] In as tudy by Singleton, [16a] hexabutylditin was added to sustain the radicalc hain by converting bromine radical to tributyltin radical. If an appropriate reducing system that regenerates Pd 0 could be identified, radical vinylation systems based on SET between alkyl iodides and Pd 0 would be useful, [Eq. (2), Scheme 1].I nt his paper we report aP d/light system combined with Hanztsch ester A as au seful tool to achieve radical vinylation of alkyl iodides with vinyl bromides.We examined the reaction of iodocyclohexane (1a)