Content:
Foreword, Page ix, George A. Olah
Editor's preface, Pages xi-xiv, Eric Banks
About the editor, Pages xv-xvi
Chapter 1 - Following fluorine in nuclear fuel manufacture at BNFL, Pages 1-13, Malcolm J. Atherton
Chapter 2 - Looking in on fluorine chemistry in Russia and Ukraine, Pages 15-27, Derek L. Averre
Chapter 3 - Forty years of fluorine chemistry: King's College, Newcastle (1954–57); The University of British Columbia (1958–66); Princeton University (1966–69); And the University of California at Berkeley (1969–98), Pages 29-55, Neil Bartlett
Chapter 4 - Contribution to the perpetuation of Moissan's memory: The Moissan Prize, Pages 57-65, Roland Bougon
Chapter 5 - Organofluorine chemistry in Novosibirsk (Siberia), Pages 67-80, Gerald M. Brooke
Chapter 6 - The Iowa connection, Pages 81-121, Donald J. Burton
Chapter 7 - Organofluorine chemistry in the University of Durham, UK, Pages 123-137, Richard D. Chambers
Appendix 7.1 - Fascinated by fluoroaromatic chemistry, Pages 138-141, Gerald M. Brooke
Appendix 7.2 - Adventures with fluorinated dienes, Pages 142-145, W.J. Feast
Appendix 7.3 - Fluorinated bio-organic compounds, Pages 146-148, David O'Hagan
Chapter 8 - Never say no to a challenge, Pages 149-166, Karl O. Christe
Chapter 9 - The anionic side of fluorine chemistry, Pages 167-174, James H. Clark
Chapter 10 - Laporte and its fluoride businesses, Pages 175-178, Alan E. Comyns
Chapter 11 - Fluorine chemistry—A chemical Gardener's paradise, Pages 179-202, Darryl D. Desmarteau
Chapter 12 - Pursuing fluorine chemistry in Poland, Pages 203-214, Wojciech Dmowski
Chapter 13 - Biographical sketch of Paul Tarrant, Pages 215-224, William R. Dolbier Jr.
Chapter 14 - Fluoropolymers, stable nitroxides and perfluoroalkylation, Pages 225-239, Kalathil C. Eapen
Chapter 15 - Fluorine chemistry in Italy, Pages 241-246, Giampaolo P. Gambaretto
Chapter 16 - Fluorine chemistry at Leicester, Pages 247-260, John H. Holloway, Eric G. Hope
Chapter 17 - Chinese research in organofluorine chemistry, Pages 261-270, Chang-Ming Hu, Wei-Yuan Huang
Chapter 18 - Fluorine chemistry in Japan, Pages 271-281, Yoshiro Kobayashi, Takeo Taguchi, Takashi Abe
Chapter 19 - The discovery of successful direct fluorination syntheses: Three ears of elemental fluorine reaction chemistry, Pages 283-296, Richard J. Lagow
Chapter 20 - Flogging the fluorocarbons, Pages 297-320, David M. Lemal
Chapter 21 - Adventures of a fluorine chemist at DuPont, Pages 321-338, William J. Middleton
Chapter 22 - Fluorine chemistry: The ICI legacy, Pages 339-383, Richard L. Powell
Chapter 23 - Fluorocarbon emulsions—Designing an efficient shuttle service for the respiratory gases—The so-called ‘Blood Substitutes’, Pages 385-431, Jean G. Riess
Chapter 24 - Some aspects of fluorine chemistry in G?ttingen, Pages 433-447, Herbert W. Roesky
Chapter 25 - Fluorocarbon metal compounds—Role models in organotransition metal chemistry, Pages 449-462, F. Gordon, A. Stone
Chapter 26 - Aromatic fluorine chemistry at Salford, Pages 463-473, Hans Suschitzky, Basil J. Wakefield
Chapter 27 - Fluorine chemistry at the University of Birmingham—A cradle of the subject in the UK, Pages 475-489, John Colin Tatlow
Chapter 28 - The belated hexafluorobenzene papers of Yvonne D?sirant, Pages 491-497, Dirk Tavernier
Chapter 29 - Highly-toxic fluorine compounds, Pages 499-538, Christopher M. Timperley
Chapter 30 - From complex fluorides to CFC alternatives — An account of fluorine chemistry at Glasgow, Pages 539-556, John M. Winfield
Appendix 30.1 - Recollections of early days in the Cambridge Inorganic Lab, Pages 557-558, A.A. Woolf
Appendix 30.2 - Chemistry at Birmingham in the 1960s, Pages 559-560, Mary Mercer
Chapter 31 - Development of inorganic fluorine chemistry in Slovenia, Pages 561-569, Boris emva
Chapter 32 - Going with the fluo, Pages 571-607, Ronald Eric Banks
Appendix 32.1 - Recollections of fluorochemical research at Avonmouth, Pages 608-611, Anthony K. Barbour
Appendix 32.2 - Fluorine chemistry, Pages 612-614, Haydn Sutcliffe
Appendix 32.4 - Fluorine, Pages 618-620, Russell P. Hughes
Appendix 32.5 - India to the USA via UMIST, Pages 621-624, Sharique S. Zuberi
Name index, Pages 625-634
Subject index, Pages 635-637
Establishment index, Pages 639-643