Fluorine Chemistry at the Millennium (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Fluorine Chemistry at the Millennium: Fascinated by Fluorine 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Foreword 10
Editor's preface 12
About the editor 16
Chapter 1. Following Fluorine in Nuclear Fuel Manufacture at BNFL 18
Chapter 2. Looking In on Fluorine Chemistry in Russia and Ukraine 32
Chapter 3. Forty Years of Fluorine Chemistry: King's College, Newcastle (1954-57) The University of British Columbia (1958-66)
Chapter 4. Contribution to the Perpetuation of Moissan's Memory: the Moissan Prize 74
Chapter 5. Organofluorine Chemistry in Novosibirsk (Siberia) 84
Chapter 6. The Iowa Connection 98
Chapter 7. Organofiuorine Chemistry in the University of Durham, UK 140
Chapter 8. Never Say No to a Challenge 166
Chapter 9. The Anionic Side of Fluorine Chemistry 184
Chapter 10. Laporte and its Fluoride Businesses 192
Chapter 11. Fluorine Chemistry – A Chemical Gardener's Paradise 196
Chapter 12. Pursuing Fluorine Chemistry in Poland 220
Chapter 13. Biographical Sketch of Paul Tarrant 232
Chapter 14. Fluoropolymers, Stable Nitroxides and Perfluoroalkylation 242
Chapter 15. Fluorine Chemistry in Italy 258
Chapter 16. Fluorine Chemistry at Leicester 264
Chapter 17. Chinese Research in Organofluorine Chemistry 278
Chapter 18. Fluorine Chemistry in Japan 288
Chapter 19. The Discovery of Successful Direct Fluorination Syntheses: Three Eras of Elemental Fluorine Reaction Chemistry 300
Chapter 20. Flogging the Fluorocarbons 314
Chapter 21. Adventures of a Fluorine Chemist at DuPont 338
Chapter 22. Fluorine Chemistry: The ICI Legacy 356
Chapter 23. Fluorocarbon Emulsions – Designing an Efficient Shuttle Service for the Respiratory Gases – the so-called 'Blood Substitutes' 402
Chapter 24. Some Aspects of Fluorine Chemistry in Göttingen 450
Chapter 25. Fluorocarbon Metal Compounds – Role Models in Organotransition Metal Chemistry 466
Chapter 26. Aromatic Fluorine Chemistry at Salford 480
Chapter 27. Fluorine Chemistry at the University of Birmingham – A Cradle of the Subject in the UK 492
Chapter 28. The Belated Hexafluorobenzene Papers of Yvonne Désirant 508
Chapter 29. Highly-toxic Fluorine Compounds 516
Chapter 30. From Complex Fluorides to CFC Alternatives – An Account of Fluorine Chemistry at Glasgow 556
Chapter 31. The Development of Inorganic Fluorine Chemistry in Slovenia 578
Chapter 32. Going with the Fluo 588
Name Index 642
Subject Index 652
Establishment Index 656