Recently, Shen Qilong’s group at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry developed two reagents including one electrophilic difluoromethylthiolating reagent N-difluoromethylthiophthalimide and one nucleophilic difluoromethylthiolating reagent [(SIPr)Ag(SCF2H)] for direct difluoromethylthiolating a variety of small molecules. 

See CASNewsletter No. 110 November 2015

http://newsletter.cas.cn/newsletter_110th/cas_03.html