The Curious World of Fluorinated Molecules

Professor Konrad Seppelt is the former Vice President of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, who leads the research group AG Seppelt at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin. In 2000, Konrad Seppelt was the first ever scientist that managed to form a compound between a noble gas and a noble Metal, something that had previously been deemed impossible due to the notoriously inert nature of these chemical groups. In a series of experiments the compound Tetraxenonogold(II) was developed and subsequently published in the journal Science.

• 1. IntroductionKonrad Seppelt2. About F2Florian Kraus3. When Fluorine Messes up: the Impact of Electron Scavenger on Properties on Molecules and SolidsWojciech Grochala4. Trifluoromethyl Peroxygen Compounds, A Personal Review and PerspectiveDarryl DesMarteau V5. Non-Metal Fluorides,Small in Size but Giant in PropertiesErhard Kemnitz6. Silicon Based FluoroalkylationsSurya G.K. Prakash7. Perfluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbon Emulsions for Pulmonary IndicationsMarie Pierre Krafft8. Curious Effects of Fluorine on Medicinally active CompoundsIwao Ojima9. Fluorine in the EcosphereBeate Koksch10. About Carbon Adducts with P- and B-FluoridesGerd-Volker Roeschenthaler11. Surprising ResultsHerbert Walter Roesky12. Chemistry and applications of per- and polyfluoroethersJaroslav Kvicala13. Metal-Carbon Bonding in Perfluoroethylene and Perfluorobenzene Transition Metal Complexes. SomeUnderappreciated π- and σ-Acceptor Components.Russell Hughes14. Octadecafluoro[60]fullerene:When Nanocarbon Met Metal FluorideOlga Boltalina15. Oxidation Reactions on Benzenes and FerrocenesKonrad Seppelt