The primary commercial use of iron(III) fluoride in the production of ceramics. Some cross coupling reaction are catalyzed by ferric fluoride-based compounds. Iron(III) fluoride has also been shown to catalyze chemoselective addition of cyanide to aldehydes to give the cyanohydrins.

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