What’s Iodine

What’s Iodine

IODINE SCIENCE

Masataka Yokoyama, Professor Emeritus, Chiba University

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• 1）Introduction
• 2）How is iodine born?
• 3）How is iodine manufactured?
• 4）How is the amount of iodine in an iodinated compound analyzed?
• 5）What physico-chemical properties of iodine are known?
• 6）Why does iodine eat iron?
• 7）Chemical bonding in an iodine molecule
• 8）What is an artificial polarizing plate?
• 9）What are hypervalent iodine compounds?
• 10）What is the role of iodine in conductive polymers?
• 11）What is an organometallic compound?
• 12）What is a dye-sensitized solar cell?
• 13）How does thyroid hormone function in the human body?
• 14）How does iodine act as a disinfectant, a bactericide, and a pesticide?
• 15）Which iodine compounds are used in medical fields?
• 16）How are the substances transformed upon the adsorption of iodine?
• 17）What is the role of an organo-iodine compound?
• 18）How does iodine contribute to polymer synthesis?
• 19）Metal iodides as battery sources.
• 20）Useful organometallic reagents from metal iodides.
• 21）Approach towards iodine by new physical methods.
• 22）Iodine in the synthesis of important natural products.
• 23）Perspective of iodine science
• 24）Closing Remark