Given the fraught history of fluorine, Michelle Francl wonders what made medicinal chemists consider fluorine derivatives?
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Francl, M. WT19F. Nat. Chem. 16, 1–2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01409-5
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