Fluoroarene derivatives have been used for many applications in the life-science and materials industries [2] and are usually synthesised on the commercial scale by either Balz–Schiemann-type fluorodediazotisation or halogen exchange ('Halex') methodologies [3]. Since both of these strategies require multi-step synthetic sequences, a more direct method for the synthesis of fluoroaromatic systems is the transformation of carbon–hydrogen to ...
