DAST converts alcohols to the corresponding alkyl fluorides as well as aldehydes and unhindered ketones to geminal difluorides. Carboxylic acids react no further than the acyl fluoride. Sulfur tetrafluoride, SF, effects the same transformation but will also convert the acyl fluoride to the trifluoromethyl derivative. For laboratory-scale operations, DAST is used in preference to SF, which is far less expensive but less easily handled.  A slightly thermally more stable compound is morpho-DAST. Acid-labile substrates are less likely to undergo rearrangement and elimination since DAST is less prone to contamination with acids. Reaction temperatures are milder as well – alcohols typically react at −78 °C and ketones around 0 °C.