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The article reports that chemistry professor G.K. Surya Prakash was recognized with the 2008 Richard C. Tolman Medal for his contributions to chemistry in Southern California.

The article focuses on a study conducted by researchers G.K. Surya Prakash and others at the University of Southern California, appeared in the 2014 issue of the periodical "Angewandte Chemie International Edition" regarding the importance of adding fluoroalkyl groups to control drug bioactivity and performance of plastics and electronic materials. It also highlights the comments of Ryan Gilmour, organofluorine chemist at the University of Münster in Germany, regarding the same.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the book "Beyond Oil and Gas," by George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert and G.K. Surya Prakash.