Perfluoroarenes react with zinc in dimethylformamide (DMF) in the presence of metal salts (SnCl2, CuCl2 or ZnBr2) to give perfluorozincarenes as the formal result of fluorine atom sub- stitution with zinc in the aromatic ring.1 Chloropentafluoro- benzene reacted with zinc at the C–Cl bond to give penta- fluorophenylzinc chloride under similar conditions.1 We found that polychlorofluoroarenes react with Zn in DMF upon heating without addition of salts; in all ...