After years of hard work by generations of scientists at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, the institute formed an innovative research team focusing on organofluorine chemistry with international influence.

The team has developed more than 10 reagents and reactions for synthetic organofluorine chemistry. Several of these reagents and reactions have been included in famous foreign chemistry reference books and have broad application. The organofluorine chemistry research team at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry is renowned among international peers as "Shanghai Fluorine."