Inorganic fluorinated materials in France: recent developments

The purpose of this very short review is obviously not to give an extensive image of the activities carried out in France these last years in various domains related to inorganic fluorine chemistry. At the turn of the century , it will rather focus on a few examples obtained in French research groups , mostly this last decade, in the fields of the synthesis and discovery of some outstanding chemical and physical properties of inorganic fluorinated materials. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.