Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

First, a typically unreactive carbon–hydrogen bond must be activated ... The second key challenge of this work was to form a ...

Owing to its small atomic size and covalent behaviour, the substitution of hydrogen or oxygen by fluorine ... featuring very stable covalent carbon–fluorine bonds. The best-known example is ...

Understanding the industrial importance and production of hydrogen fluoride ... shared electrons in chemical bonds. As the most electronegative element, fluorine is very reactive, so much so ...