International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies

• The first meeting of ISoFT was held July 3–6, 2005 in Bordeaux, France. Jean-Marc Vincent and Richard H. Fish organized the first symposium, selected the International Advisory Board, and instituted the Fluorous Technology Award.
• The second meeting of ISoFT was held July 29-August 1, 2007 in Yokohama, Japan. The meeting was chaired by Drs. Junzo Otera and Kenichi Hatanaka.
• The third ISoFT meeting was held in conjunction with the 19th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry from August 23–28, 2009 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
• The fourth meeting of ISoFT was at the City University of Hong Kong from November 30-December 3, 2011 and was chaired by Dr. István T. Horváth.[1]
• The fifth ISoFT meeting was held from June 2–5, 2013 at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and was chaired by József Rábai.[2]
• The sixth ISoFT meeting was held from August 23–28, 2015 at Politecnico di Milano in Como, Italy, as a joint event with 21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry and was chaired by Pierangelo Metrangolo, Giuseppe Resnati and Giancarlo Terraneo.[3]
• The seventh ISoFT meeting was held from August 9-11, 2017 at Tufts University outside Boston, MA, USA and was chaired by Krishna Kumar, Wei Zhang and Vittorio Montari.[4]

In recognition of major contributions to fluorous chemistry:

• 2005, István T. Horváth (City University of Hong Kong)

József Rábai (Eötvös Loránd University)

• 2007, John A. Gladysz (Texas A&M University)

Dennis P. Curran (University of Pittsburgh)

• 2009, Ilhyong Ryu (Osaka Prefecture University)
• 2011, Gianluca Pozzi (CNR-Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari)
• 2013, Richard H. Fish (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Jean-Marc Vincent (University of Bordeaux)

• 2015, Wei Zhang (University of Massachusetts)
• 2017, Nicola Pohl (Indiana University)