Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

In discussing halogen reactivity (as covered in Core Idea), it is a common practice to argue that as you go down the Group 17 elements it becomes harder for the elements to gain an electron to form a ...

Fluorine chemistry developed rapidly during the Second World War, with American scientists working on the 'Manhattan project' to separate fissionable uranium-235 from uranium-238. Uranium is ...