Fluorine-containing chiral compounds of biomedical interest / Robert Filler -- Asymmetric synthesis of fluoroorganic compounds via chiral organoboranes / P.V. Ramachandran and Herbert C. Brown -- Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of fluoroorganic compounds : Mukaiyama-Aldol and Henry reactions / Katsuhiko Iseki -- Asymmetric fluorination of [alpha]-amino ketones : synthesis of monofluoroketomethylene peptide isosteres and related compounds / Robert V. Hoffman and Junhua Tao -- Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts reactions with fluoral catalyzed by chiral binaphthol-derived titanium catalysts / Akihiro Ishii and Koichi Mikami -- Biomimetic, reducing agent-free reductive amination of fluorocarbonyl compounds : practical asymmetric synthesis of enantiopure fluoroamines and amino acids / Vadim A. Soloshonok -- Stereoselective and enantioselective synthesis of new fluoroalkyl peptidomimetic units : amino alcohols and isoserines / Ahmed Abouabdellah [and others] -- Asymmetric synthesis of fluoroalkyl amino compounds via chiral sulfoxides / Pierfrancesco Bravo [and others] -- Studies toward the syntheses of functionalized, fluorinated allyl alcohols / P.V. Ramachandran, M. Venkat Ram Reddy, and Michael T. Rudd -- Stereoselective synthesis of [beta]-fluoroaklyl [beta]-amino alcohols units / Matteo Zanda, Pierfrancesco Bravo, and Alessandro Volonterio -- Diastereoselective construction of novel sugars containing variously fluorinated methyl groups as intermediates for fluorinated aldols / Takashi Yamazaki, Shuichi Hiraoka, and Tomoya Kitazume -- Synthesis of enantiopure fluorine-containing taxoids and their use as anticancer agents as well as probes for biomedical problems / Iwao Ojima [and others] -- The synthesis of a series of fluorinated tribactams / Ferenc Gyenes, Andrei Kornilov, and John T. Welch -- Chemical and biochemical approaches to the enantiomers of chiral fluorinated catecholamines and amino acids / K.L. Kirk [and others] -- Natural products containing fluorine and recent progress in elucidating the pathway of fluorometabolite biosynthesis in Streptomyces cattleya / D. O'Hagan and D.B. Harper -- Synthetic aspects of fluorine-containing chiral liquid crystals / Tamejiro Hiyama, Tetsuo Kusumoto, and Hiroshi Matsutani -- Resolution of racemic perfluorocarbons through self-assembly driven by electron donor-acceptor intermolecular recognition / Maria Teresa Messina, Pierangelo Metrangolo, and Giuseppe Resnati -- Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of diastereomeric [alpha]- or [beta]-CF₃ liquid crystalline molecules : conformational probe for anti-ferroelectricity and self-assembly for spontaneous chiral resolution of the racemates / Koichi Mikami -- Chiral 3-Aryl-4-halo-5-(trifluoromethyl)pyrazoles : synthesis and herbicidal activity of enantiomeric lactate derivatives of aryl-pyrazole herbicides / Bruce C. Hamper [and others] -- Chiral fluorinated anesthetics / Keith Ramig