Used as a reagent in organic synthesis, particularly for the introduction of the bromodifluoromethyl group into organic molecules. It serves as a source of difluorocarbene under thermal or photochemical conditions, enabling the formation of fluorinated compounds that are valuable in pharmaceutical and agrochemical research. Its ability to undergo sulfone elimination makes it useful in radical reactions and cyclization processes to build complex fluorinated structures. Commonly applied in the development of fluorinated analogs in medicinal chemistry due to the metabolic stability imparted by fluorine atoms.