The efficient catalytic asymmetric syntheses of fluorinated aldols and nitroaldols of high enantiomeric purity are described. Difluoroketene and bromofluoroketene trimethylsilyl ethyl acetals react with various aldehydes in the presence of chiral Lewis acids at -78°C to afford the corresponding desired aldols with up to 99% ee. It is noteworthy that the aldol reactions of the fluorine-substituted acetals at -78°C and at higher temperatures (-45 or -20°C) provide the (+) and (-) aldols, respectively, with excellent-to-good enantioselectivity. The Henry reaction of 2,2-difluoroaldehydes with nitromethane is carried out using lanthanoid-lithium-BINOL catalysts to give the nitroaldols with up to 95% ee. The enantiotopic face selection for the fluorine -containing aldehydes is the reverse of that for nonfluorinated aldehydes.