2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Creating complex carbon-based molecules using palladium
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 09:20
in Physics & Chemistry
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for developing palladium-catalyzed cross coupling. This chemical tool has vastly improved the possibilities for chemists to create sophisticated chemicals -- for example, carbon-based molecules as complex as those created by nature itself.