Treatment of tribromofluoromethane with diethylzinc in DMF at -60 °C generated a zinc carbenoid reagent, which reacted with aldehydes RCHO chemoselectively to give RCH(OH)CFBr2 in moderate-to-good yields.
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Hata et al. (2000) studied this question.