From inorganic chemistry to biochemistry

Applications of fluorine are more and more diverse and all domains of chemistry are concerned.

Since their use as fluxes, the interest areas of fluorine compounds never stopped to extend. Besides the initial domain of inorganic chemistry, organic, coordination, polymer and, more recently, health and life chemistries have developed.

It is now admitted that fluorine, in its associations, is incontestably a key element for the exceptional induced properties: low wettability and/or viscosity, high transparency,....

Fluorine chemistry is specific, as a reason of the high reactivity of fluorinated atmospheres or solutions, of the high sensitivity of fluorides towards hydrolysis and, consequently, of the original methods which are to be involved.

Innovation in technology and imagination have always paralleled the history of this element, from the discovery to the evidence of the reaction with noble gas and to the crystallisation and the characterisation of natural fluorination enzyme 5’-fluoro-5’-deoxyadenosine synthase.

From inorganic chemistry to biochemistry
Applications of fluorine are more and more diverse and all domains of chemistry are concerned.

Since their use as fluxes, the interest areas of fluorine compounds never stopped to extend. Besides the initial domain of inorganic chemistry, organic, coordination, polymer and, more recently, health and life chemistries have developed.

It is now admitted that fluorine, in its associations, is incontestably a key element for the exceptional induced properties: low wettability and/or viscosity, high transparency,....

Fluorine chemistry is specific, as a reason of the high reactivity of fluorinated atmospheres or solutions, of the high sensitivity of fluorides towards hydrolysis and, consequently, of the original methods which are to be involved.

Innovation in technology and imagination have always paralleled the history of this element, from the discovery to the evidence of the reaction with noble gas and to the crystallisation and the characterisation of natural fluorination enzyme 5’-fluoro-5’-deoxyadenosine synthase.