To ensure ongoing sustainability, the modern agrochemical industry is faced with enormous
challenges. These arise from provision of high‐quality food to increasing water use and …

Of the herbicides licensed worldwide, currently around 25% contain at least one fluorine
atom and many contain multiple fluorines in the form of difluoro-and trifluoromethyl groups …

Fluorine-containing compounds are at the leading edge of many new developments in the
life science industry. In recent years a steady increase in the number of fluorinated organic …

Summary Currently, more than 1,200 agrochemicals are listed and many of these are
regularly used by farmers to generate the food supply to support the expanding global …

The dramatic effect of fluorine on the biological activity of agrochemicals such as herbicides,
insecticides, fungicides, and plant growth regulators has earned fluorine a unique place in …

Fluorinated pesticides acquired a significant market share in the agrochemical sector due to
the surge of new fluoroorganic ingredients approved in the last two decades. This growing …

In this review, the methodologies for fluorine incorporation of 40 fluorine-containing
agrochemicals that received an international standardization organization (ISO) name …

The task of inventing and developing active ingredients with useful biological activities
requires a search for novel chemical substructures. This process may trigger the discovery of …

The pyridine ring, substituted by a trifluoromethyl substituent has been successfully
incorporated into molecules with useful biological properties. During the period 1990 to …

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 …