Series Editor:
Alain Tressaud, ICMCB-CNRS University Bordeaux 1, Pessac Cedex, France
Description
Advances in Fluorine Science is a new book series presenting critical multidisciplinary overviews on areas in which fluorine
and fluoride compounds have a decisive impact. The individual volumes of
Advances in Fluorine Science are thematic,
addressing comprehensively both the science and applications on topics including the Environment, Green chemistry, Medicine, Health &
Life Sciences, New Technologies & Materials Science, Energy and the Earth Sciences.
In the present volume, the key-position of fluoro-products
in agriculture is reviewed, since a large percentage of agro-chemicals and pesticides contain at least one fluorine atom. However, improvements
in the use of fluorine-based products in agrochemicals cannot be developed without taking into consideration a safer environment, on
both levels of greener synthesis routes and a reduction of the negative impact on plants and organisms. Within this scope, fluorine has
a very peculiar place, since its high reactivity yields several advantages, for instance in by-passing various polluting multi-step reactions.
Fluorine-based materials are reviewed as efficient tools for protecting our cultural heritage. Also using up-to-date techniques such
as ion beam analysis, this element can help relative dating applications, ranging from burial durations of archaeological bones and teeth
to the determination of exposure ages of meteorites on the Antarctic ice shield.
Included in series
Advances in Fluorine Science
Audience:
For chemists and physico-chemists, also environmentalists, zoologists, botanists, geophysicists and archaeologists
