Used as an intermediate in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, particularly in the development of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) where fluorinated aromatic compounds enhance metabolic stability and bioavailability. Its bromo and fluoro substituents allow for selective cross-coupling reactions, making it valuable in building complex molecules for drug discovery. Also employed in agrochemical synthesis to create herbicides and fungicides, leveraging the electron-withdrawing properties of fluorine to improve compound efficacy. Additionally, it serves as a building block in materials science for designing liquid crystals and organic semiconductors due to its rigid aromatic structure and polar functional groups.