The little, juvenile and aggressive "fluorine atom" is growing up

The little, juvenile and aggressive “fluorine atom” is growing up and also his situation is becoming your prime focus. Fluorine atom is definitively unique and confers distinctive molecular properties to many fluorine containing compounds studied for relevant developments. Surprisingly, “the little fluorine” carried out the desired job in countless applications. Its behaviour “wonderful or terrible” is distinctive for the reason that it is possible to replace any hydrogen in an organic molecule or macromolecule with fluorine atom, creating an infinite extension of completely synthetic organic chemistry, since very few compounds containing carbon-fluorine bonds are present in nature (1). Starting from the discovery of PTFF by Roy Plunkett, serendipity is quite frequent in fluorine chemistry, also due to the infinite number of possible compounds and related properties.