Fluorine has become an essential tool in drug discovery. Including fluorine atoms in potential medicines can have a variety of dramatic effects on the molecules' properties, perhaps making them more selective, increasing their efficacy, or making them easier to administer. So it is no great surprise that around a fifth of all drugs on the market today contain at least one fluorine substituent. ...

The research was based on a pot experiment, in which the response of eight species of crops to soil contamination with fluorine was investigated. In parallel, some inactivating substances were tested in terms of their potential use for the neutralization of the harmful influence of fluorine on plants. The response of crops to soil contamination with fluorine was assessed according to the volume...

Multipolar interactions involving fluorine and the protein backbone have been frequently observed in protein-ligand complexes. Such fluorine-backbone interactions may substantially contribute to the high affinity of small molecule inhibitors. Here we found that introduction of trifluoromethyl groups into two different sites in the thienopyrimidine class of menin-MLL inhibitors considerably impr...

Refractive index dispersion has been determined for fluorine doped fused silica containing 1 and 2% fluorine. Addition of fluorine is found to reduce the refractive index and material dispersion. Fibers modeled for minimization of modal dispersion having fused silica cores and fluorine doped silica cladding show a strong composition dependence of the optimum refractive index profile. Comparison...

Calculations of fluorine binding and migration on carbon nanotube surfaces show that fluorine forms varying surface superlattices at increasing temperatures. The ordering transition is controlled by the surface migration barrier for fluorine atoms to pass through next neighbor sites on the nanotube, explaining the transition from semi-ionic low coverage to covalent high coverage fluorination ob...

Unprecedented divergent rearrangements of cyclopropyl-substituted fluoroepoxides are reported. In the presence of a catalytic amount of benzoic acid, cyclopropyl-substituted fluoroepoxides efficiently undergo 1,5-fluorine migration. However, when the fluoroepoxides are heated with K2CO3 at 60 °C, 1,2-fluorine migration occurs. The 1,5-fluorine migration is believed to proceed via a carbocation ...

The main astrophysical factories of fluorine (F) are thought to be Type II supernovae, Wolf–Rayet stars, and the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) of intermediate mass stars. We present a model for the chemical evolution of fluorine in the Milky Way using a semi-analytic multi-zone chemical evolution model. For the first time, we demonstrate quantitatively the impact of fluorine nucleosynthesis in ...

Thermophysical properties of fluorine are interesting because of its applications in different areas of technologyand industry. The computations of thermodynamic properties were performed with the GMA equation of stateunder critical conditions. The present work reports calculations of density, volumetric, and thermodynamicproperties of liquid fluorine on extended ranges of pressure and temperat...

The application of hypofluorites (fluoroxy-compounds), especially tnfluoromethyl hypofluorite, in the synthesis of fluorinated steroids is described. Hypofluorites are powerful but selective fluorinating agents with unusual electrophilic character. They should find considerable application not only in the synthesis of fluorinated steroids, but for preparation of fluorinated compounds of many di...

Evidence has recently appeared from three diverse sources that fluorine is in some way related to the inhibition of dental caries. First, chemical analyses have shown that sound enamel from sound teeth contains more fluorine than that from carious teeth (1); this is the only established chemical difference between sound and carious tissues. Second, field studies have shown a lower incidence of ...