The scientific objectives of this Collaborative Research Center are to understand and control the complex interactions that can emanate from fluorinated structural units in chemical systems. For this purpose, the wide-ranging expertise of the different working groups involved in synthesis/biosynthesis, analytics/spectroscopy, and theory/modeling will be complementarily and synergistically linked to systematically expand our understanding of both the conceptual underpinning of fluorine-specific interactions and their many consequences across several areas of chemistry.

• Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel
• Launched: January 2019
• Website: www.sfb1349.de
• Participants: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, TU Berlin, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, University of Bayreuth, University of Stuttgart