International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry

The International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC) is an academic conference where researchers present their most recent original results on the chemistry of fluorine and its derivatives. Communications deal with all compounds of fluorine, from hydrogen fluoride to fluoropolymers and other fluorocarbons. Participants to editions from 18th ISFC onwards have been nearly 500, most of them were from academia, researchers from fluorochemical industry being the second largest group.

History

On 14 – 17 July 1959, Colin J. Tatlow organized in Birmingham (UK) an event which was "a milestone in fluorine chemistry", namely he arranged “an International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, which became the first of the now regular and important familiar series”.[1] After the 8th ISFC, held in Kyoto (Japan) on 22 – 27 August 1976, ISFCs were systematically organized every three years under the governance of an International Steering Committee. From the very beginning ISFCs were reference events for scientists involved in fluorine chemistry and they played a major role in framing and maintaining the community of fluorine chemists. Some emblematic confirmations of this roles are: results presented at the 1st ISFC (Birmingham, 1959) are cited in a Houben-Weyl volume on fluorine chemistry published in 1999,[2] results presented at the 4th ISFC (Estes Park, 1967) are mentioned in a book on the chemistry and technology of lubricants published in 2013,[3] the Moissan Prize [4] is the most prestigious prize in fluorine chemistry and is presented at ISFCs.

George A. Olah, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1994, gave a plenary lecture at the 15th ISFC (Vancouver, 1997).[5] The Book of Abstracts of 13th ISFC has been published as a special issue of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry.[6] The Book of Abstract of 21st ISFC can be tracked by its ISBN.[7]

List of Symposia
N. Year City Country Period Chair(s) Notes
11959BirminghamUnited Kingdom United Kingdom14–17 JulyColin J. Tatlow
21962Estes ParkUnited States USA17–20 JulyOgden R. Pierce, Alan M. Lovelace
31965MunichWest Germany West Germany30 August - 2 SeptemberFriedrich Weygand
41967Estes ParkUnited States USA24–28 JulyPaul Tarrant
51969MoscowSoviet Union USSR21-26 JulyIvan L. Knunyants
61971DurhamUnited Kingdom United Kingdom18–23 JulyWilliam K. R. Musgrave
71973Santa CruzUnited States USA15–20 JulyNeil Bartlett
81976KyotoJapan Japan22–27 AugustNobuatu Watanabe, Nobuo Ishikawa
91979AvignonFrance France3–7 SeptemberPaul Hagenmuller, Pierre Plurien
101982VancouverCanada Canada1–6 AugustFelix Aubke, Jean'ne Shreeve, Robert C. Thompson, William R. Cullen
111985Berlin EastEast Germany East Germany5–9 AugustLothar Kolditz, Hasso Meinert
121988Santa CruzUnited States USA7–12 AugustDonald J. Burton, Darryl D. Des Marteau, Paul R. Resnick, Stanley M. Williamson
131991BochumGermany Germany2–6 SeptemberAlois Haas, Peter Sartori
141994YokohamaJapan Japan31 July - 5 AugustNobuatsu Watanabe, Yoshiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kobayashi
151997VancouverCanada Canada2–7 AugustFelix Aubke, Jean’ne M. Shreeve
162000DurhamUnited Kingdom United Kingdom16–21 JulyRichard D. Chambers, Graham Sandford
172005ShanghaiChina China24–29 JulyWei-Yuan Huang, Xi-Kui Jiang, Qing-Yun ChenInitially scheduled on July 20–25, 2003
182006BremenGermany Germany30 July - 4 AugustRüdiger Mews, Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler
192009Jackson HoleUnited States USA23–28 AugustJoseph S. Thrasher, Olga V. Boltalina, Steven H. Strauss, Richard E. Fernandez405 participants; joint event with the 3rd International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies
202012KyotoJapan Japan22–27 JulyRika Hagiwara, Takashi Yamazaki484 participants
212015ComoItaly Italy23–28 AugustPierangelo Metrangolo, Giuseppe Resnati, Giancarlo Terraneo559 participants; joint event with the 6th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies
222018OxfordUnited Kingdom United Kingdom22-27 JulyVeronique Gouverneur, David O'Hagan, Graham Sandford
232023QuébecCanada Canada23-28 JulyChadron M. Friesen, Michael Gerken, Jean-François Paquin, Gary J. Schrobilgenjoint event with the 9th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies

References
  1. Fluorine Chemistry at the Millennium: Fascinated by Fluorine; R. E. Banks Ed.; Elsevier, Oxford, 2000; pgg. 68 and 489. ISBN 0 08 043405 3
  2. Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry, vol. E 10 b/1, Stuttgart, 1999; pg. 113. ISBN 3 13 220304 1
  3. Synthetics, Mineral Oils, and Bio-Based Lubricants: Chemistry and Technology; L. R. Rudnick Ed.; Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2013; pg. 186. ISBN 978 1 4398 5537 9
  4. The prize was created after the Centennial 1986 Paris Symposium to commemorate Moissan's isolation of elemental fluorine in 1886, it is presented every three years to stimulate research in the fields of fluorine chemistry. "Prix Henri Moissan".
  5. 15th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Program and Abstracts, PL2
  6. "Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 1991, volume 54, issues 1-3".
  7. Book of Abstracts; P. Metrangolo, G. Resnati, G. Terraneo Eds.; Poliscript, Milano, 2015. ISBN 978 88 6493 030 5
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