About a third of all Swiss exports result from fundamental discoveries in synthetic chemistry. Certain drugs and perfumes, as well as food and agricultural products—and even Ferrari’s famous red colour—are derived from new molecular structures invented by Swiss scientists. Chemists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have just discovered that chemical bonds based on antimony, a forgotten element at the very bottom of the periodic table, yield powerful new catalysts that can be used to stimulate the transformation of a molecule from within. These bonds complement existing interactions such as conventional hydrogen bonds or the more recent chalcogen bonds with sulfur. This finding, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, could lead to the creation of new, innovative materials. It has triggered a small revolution among synthetic chemists, who had always believed that there was a limit to the number of possible bonds to build new catalysts.