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Garg Lab @ UCLA. Group updates, publications, educational initiatives, and other fun stuff.
Joined April 2017
What if organic chemistry was as easy to learn as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?" In the newest Dreyfus Foundation-funded @chemistryshorts film - out today - @UCLA's Neil Garg (@GargLab) argues that it is! Watch the film on YouTube: https://t.co/W7MRig8VzM
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🚨 NEW FILM COMING SOON! 🚨 We're excited for the launch of the newest film in the @ChemistryShorts series - featuring professor Neil Garg (@GargLab) of @UCLA - on organic chemistry. Coming soon.
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We’re excited to share our latest progress toward the complex hydrocarbon dodecahedrane! This approach hinges on a key photochemical stereoisomerization. Congrats to Luca, @zachwalterschem, and Jiaming! @JOC_OL @UCLA @UCLAchem
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Thrilled to share the first paper from our group at UCLA, online today in Science: “Biocatalytic, Asymmetric Radical Hydrogenation of Unactivated Alkenes” @uclachem @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/YCtGp91kd2
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Alkene hydrogenation is a cornerstone of chemical synthesis, yet enzymatic strategies remain limited to electron deficient substrates via hydride transfer. Using heme enzymes, we unlock a hydrogena...
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'Safety Letter: Evaluation of the Popular Oxidant 2-Iodoxybenzoic Acid (IBX)' from Organic Letters is currently free to read as an #ACSEditorsChoice. đź“– Read the article: https://t.co/Lln6kfbWGk
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Alumna Dr. Arismel Tena Meza (@GargLab) is featured in UCLA Newsroom's IN FOCUS: National Hispanic Heritage Month!
newsroom.ucla.edu
A curated selection of stories from across the UCLA campus spotlighting Latino voices, histories and research.
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The 13th annual Young Guns Symposium was a huge success thanks to this outstanding lineup of our newest 2nd year students! Congrats to Noah, Aimee, and Marianna! #13thAnnualYoungGuns @uclachem
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Introducing SpecStory Cloud🎉 We now build faster than ever. With Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and other AI tools, work that once took days now happens in minutes. But in all that speed, the context behind our work gets lost. The reasoning, the decision logs, the
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We recently teamed up with the legendary @Merck process group to take a close look at the safety profile of the popular oxidant IBX: https://t.co/OZic3cPodH. Kudos to all of the authors for putting #SafetyFirst. @JOC_OL @UCLA @UCLAchem
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Congrats to Allison and Giulianna for publishing a procedure for the hydrosilylation of propiolate esters in @OrgSynth! Thanks to @thevanderwallab for checking! Read it here: https://t.co/FxnIzQK942
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Professor Neil Garg’s (@GargLab) in depth interview with @ZierlerDavid, is featured in the Caltech Heritage Project. Garg received his Ph.D. from Caltech, with @brianstoltz70 @thestoltzgroup @CaltechCCE @Caltech
https://t.co/DXNekyuLDw
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heritageproject.caltech.edu
An oral history with CCE alumnus Neil Garg
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For those attending the Fall @AmerChemSociety Meeting, would love to see you at the @cenmag Talented 12 Symposium (Mon 9.18, 2-5pm, rm 202A)! Neil will honor the awardees at 2:05pm as the Keynote Speaker and share some perspectives on his journey from Fishkill, NY to @UCLA.
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Enter the next chapter.​ The official SCUF x @CallofDuty Black Ops 7 Controllers are here.​ Built for the fight.
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Prof. Neil Garg is the keynote speaker for the Talented 12 Symposium on Monday, August 18, 2025! @GargLab
C&EN is bringing a full slate of events to #ACSFall2025. Join us for the Chem Social and trivia challenge, a panel on the future of chemistry degrees, the Talented 12 Symposium, and the C&EN Digital Experience Launch. Learn More/RSVP Now: https://t.co/Vmj7do4NKU
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Here is our latest study in @ChemicalScience! This covers the mechanisms by which 1,2,3-trienes, anti-Bredt olefins, & other unusual compounds arise from Kobayashi precursors. Congrats to @zachwalterschem & Dom! https://t.co/02LjJsqLU0
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Congratulations to former Garg lab postdoc Evan Darzi (@thederzzz) for winning a 2025 ACS Early Career Investigator Award! @ACSorganic @UCLA @uclachem
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AI isn’t just about compute anymore—it’s about communication. @DellTech’s Seamus Jones, @TheFuturumGroup’s David Nicholson (@MasSubestimado), & @Signal65’s Brian Martin explore how next-gen AI workloads are turning data centers into communication-bound systems—and why network
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Happy for our lab to play a very small role in a new study led by @houk1000 on how HHCs bind to the cannabinoid receptors. Check it out in #ACSChemBio and congrats to all authors! Read it here:
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Hexahydrocannabinols (HHCs) are emerging cannabinoids that have become available for recreational use and were recently classified as Schedule II under an international treaty. Although often...
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Congrats to lab members Sarah (@Teamfrench_) and Allison (@Allisonc2001s), who each won poster prizes at the Heron10 and NOS 2025 conferences respectively! @uclachem #Heron10 #NOS2025 #WomenInSTEM
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We recently welcomed an awesome postdoctoral fellow, Marie! Marie joins us from Stockholm University, where she completed her Ph.D. studies with Prof. Kálmán Szabó. In her free time, Marie enjoys traveling and swimming outdoors! @Stockholm_Uni @uclachem
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