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Eccentric properties of fluorine such as highest electronegativity and smallest atomic radius after the hydrogen atom make the fluorine atom a pivotal element in biological and material applications. A variety of methods now exist for introducing fluorine into organic molecules [1, 2, 6‐8, 11, 28‐30, 36, 43, 44]. Among them, deoxo- and dethioxo fluorination methods involving the direct replacement of oxygen and/or sulfur moieties in substrates with fluorine are one of the most effective approaches for the selective synthesis of organofluorine compounds. Various reagents such as SF4 [14], DAST (diethylaminosulfur trifluoride) [26], Deoxo-Fluor [bis(2-methoxyethyl)aminosulfur trifluoride] [3], DFI (2,2-difluoro-1,3-dimethylimidazolidine) [15], DFMBA (N,N-diethyl-α,α-difluoro-m-methylbenzylamine) [22], TFFH (fluoro-N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylformamidinium hexafluorophosphate) [9], PhenoFluor [1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-2,2-difluoro-2,3-dihydro-1H-imidazole] [38], CpFluors (3,3-difluoro-1,2-diarylcyclopropene) [27], XtalFluor-E [(diethylamino)difluorosulfonium tetrafluoroborate] and XtalFluor-M (difluoro-4-morpholinylsulfonium tetrafluoroborate) [3, 25], Fluolead (4-tert-butyl-2,6-dimethylphenylsulfur trifluoride) [42], and PyFluor (2-pyridinesulfonyl fluoride) [31] have been developed for this purpose. The title compounds, arylsulfur chlorotetrafluorides (ArSF4Cl), fluorinate many kinds of oxy- and sulfur-containing substrates such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, diketones, carboxylic acids, and sulfur compounds to corresponding fluoro-compounds in the presence of reducing reagents. Arylsulfur trifluorides (ArSF3) generated in situ from ArSF4Cl are reactive species in this transformation. Sulfur substrates are directly fluorinated with ArSF4Cl without the addition of reducing agents transferring to the corresponding fluorinated compounds (Fig. 1) [41].