It is a pleasure to be able to introduce this second Thematic Series on ‘organo-fluorine chemistry’ within the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. The series now embeds the subject firmly as a special interest area of the journal. The first series in 2008 presented contributions representing a wide range of organic fluorine chemistry [1-10] and this series continues that trend exploring the...

Organo-fluorine compounds are the substances of considerable interest in various industrial fields due to their unique physical and chemical properties. Despite increased demand in wide fields of science, synthesis of fluoro-organic compounds is still often faced with problems such as the difficulties in handling of fluorinating reagents and in controlling of chemical reactions. Recently, flow ...

New synthetic methods and fluorinated reagents have been developed,that facilitate the introduction of fluorine or fluorocontaining units into small building blocks, designer compounds, and materials of new and often surprising properties. However,in spite of all these advances, we are still lacking sufficient insight into the fundamental aspects of fluoro-organic chemistry,particularly in the ...