© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015. Organofluorine compounds find diverse applications in the medicinal, agricultural, and material sciences. As a new application, certain organofluorine compounds have been used as ancillary materials in asymmetric synthesis. In this paper, we introduce the asymmetric transformations in which fluorinated solvents, additives, auxiliaries, and catalysts function to improve the stereoselectivities and/or the chemical yields. This journal is