• Reacts with ethyl cyanoacetate, in the presence of K2CO3 in DMF, to displace one F atom, as the first step of a synthesis of pentafluorophenylacetonitrile: Org. Synth. Coll., 6, 873 (1988).
• Exchanges with Grignard reagents, under catalysis by CoCl2, to give the pentafluorophenyl Grignard reagent: J. Organomet. Chem., 19, 191 (1969).