Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry of Fluorine

• Provides a thorough overview of the role of fluorine in pharmaceutical science and development
• Includes chapters on fluorinated analogues of natural products, fluorinated amino acids and peptides, and derivatives of sugars
• Classifies marketed and in-development fluorinated pharmaceuticals according to their therapeutic classes

Jean-Pierre Begue, PHD, is Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. Danièle Bonnet-Delpon, PHD, is Director of Research at CNRS. The authors and their coworkers have developed the chemistry of fluorinated compounds, from organic synthesis to medicinal chemistry.