Fluorine teams up with water to restore inhibitor activity to mutant BPTI.
Ye, S., Loll, B., Berger, A.A., Mulow, U., Alings, C., Wahl, M.C., Koksch, B.(2015) Chem Sci 6: 5246-5254
- PubMed: 29449928 
- DOI: 10.1039/c4sc03227f
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- PubMed Abstract: 
Introducing fluorine into molecules has a wide range of effects on their physicochemical properties, often desirable but in most cases unpredictable. The fluorine atom imparts the C-F bond with low polarizability and high polarity, and significantly ...