See this on Earth Day!
Credit: Timothy Newhouse, Chad A. Lewis and Phil S. Baran.[1]
And see it any day on Earth. Kapakahines B and F are both awesome in the eye of some of us. They are still beautiful for the rest of us because they are promising big things like this one, our planet, Earth.
Credit: Wikipedia (and the USA-public)
And chemistry dates Earth:
Chemists Celebrate Earth Day [2]
Theme: “Air—The Sky’s the Limit”
P.S. Kapakahine B (or F), named after the Hawaiian word kapakahi for "twisted," has an unusual molecular structure that gives its unusual behavior to fight cancer cells.
References:
[1] Timothy Newhouse, Chad A. Lewis and Phil S. Baran. Enantiospecific Total Syntheses of Kapakahines B and F. J. Am. Chem. Soc., Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/ja901573x
(Publication Date (Web): April 17, 2009)
[2] http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=1034&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=ce5c3ffd-b70b-4d6d-b0bc-1e914807bbef
