Yellow

So this is what the compounds that my research is currently centered around look like. They're called silylglyoxylates (my boss coined the term). The picture doesn't really do it justice. It is extremely yellow and even a little of it will be really yellow in solution or on your lab coat.
Oddly enough they seem to smell like asparagus and I havn't tasted any of them yet but I'm really tempted... They do really cool things when they're attacked by an electrophile (form an enolate following a brook rearragement). Unfortunetely they don't like the light otherwise my bench would be all decked out in various shades of yellow.