Abstract: On Oct 6th, 2010, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2010 was awarded jointly to an American scientist Richard F. Heck and two Japanese scientists Eiichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for their great contributions to palladiumcatalyzed crosscoupling. It provides one of the most sophisticated tools available to chemists to create complicated organic molecules. This tool has been widely used in pharmaceuticals, electronics industry, and advanced materials. A brief introduction for palladiumcatalyzed crosscoupling was presented in this paper.

Key words: palladiumcatalyzed, crosscoupling reaction, Nobel Prize in Chemistry,  fine particulate matter pollution, hygroscopicity, visibility deterioration