That's one heck of a reaction! American chemist Richard Heck won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the Heck reaction. It uses an organopalladium catalyst to make carbon-carbon bonds, and has been enormously influential in chemistry, medicine, and industry.

Researchers have cracked open the field of ultracold chemistry by reacting two KRb molecules at 250 nano-Kelvin. Quantum mechanical interactions allow these molecules to react at such a temperature, producing K2 and Rb2. That is cool chemistry!

Many protease (protein cleaving) enzymes use the catalytic triad in their active site: serine, aspartate, and histidine. These three amino acid residues work together to break peptide bonds in a snap!

All physical chemists know the saying diamonds are forever is really a crock. The saying should go, graphite is forever, because graphite is the most thermodynamically stable form of carbon!

Isolated from freshly collected Hippopotamus sweat, Hipposudoric acid is a highly conjugated molecule that absorbs light in the UV-visible spectrum. It is speculated that the compound acts as a natural sunscreen for the Hippopotamus's sensitive skin.

There are more than 41 'anomalies' associated with good ol' H2O. Find out more about the amazing properties of water in the resources section.

What you see is not what a molecule gets. The colors you see are the wavelengths of light which are NOT absorbed by the object.