Fluorine and fluorinated substituent groups play an increasingly important role in modern inorganic chemistry. Many advances in solid-sate chemistry, coordination chemistry, main group element chemistry, and organometallic chemistry rely on the unique physical and chemical properties of the most electronegative of the chemical elements. This chapter lists the important monographs and reviews that have been published during the last twenty-five years in this area as well as some thoughts about where the field of inorganic fluorine chemistry is heading.The unusual properties exhibited by numerous materials upon the incorporation of either fluorine or fluorine-containing substituents are no longer just topics of idle curiosity for the academician, but are the driving force behind developments in the field of fluorine chemistry. Many advances have either recently found or await commercialization as witnessed by the increasing diversity of industrial applications of fluorine compounds (7-7). Two illustrative examples of the current importance of inorganic fluorine chemistry to industry are the development of both chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) alternatives and new precursors for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of inorganic materials. Although the CFC alternatives will almost certainly be organofluorine compounds, the processes being developed to produce these materials cannot escape the use of inorganic fluorine chemistry in terms of catalysts (8-15), halogen exchange reagents (16-20), and the like. The references given here serve only as representative examples; the current patent literature is full of references in light of the global concern to help halt the depletion of stratospheric ozone. The second aforementioned case falls into the increasingly important area of materials science. For example, a number of groups have recently taken advantage of the well-known increase in volatility associated with fluorine incorporation to make a series of volatile metal alkoxides which serve as new precursors for CVD of metal fluorides (21-28). Separate chapters on both of these topics of industrial importance appear later in this book.