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

Super exciting to see this work published!

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

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 @ucla @uclachem @Houk1000

Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. Candidate Allison, who passed her candidacy exam with flying colors! @Allisonc2001s @uclachem

Congrats to third-year organic chemistry graduate students Flora Fan (Doyle lab), Zach Walters (@GargLab), and Qingyang Zhou (@houk1000 lab) who have been named the 2025 Senior Foote Fellows! 🥳 https://t.co/HwJ6t0bEM5

Now online: Review by Luca McDermott, Zach Walters, Allison Clark & Neil Garg @garglab @uclachem @uclachem Geometric distortion as an enabling tool for organic synthesis https://t.co/51ctOJi6jg ($)

Check out our review on the use of geometric distortion as an enabling tool for organic synthesis, just published in @NatureSynthesis! Congrats to Luca, @zachwalterschem, and Allison! Read it here: https://t.co/JnRvdANjL9 @uclachem

ACS Spring 2025 was a blast!  A huge shoutout to lab members Georgia and Jordan for crushing their talks. And thanks to the organizers, speakers, and our guest of honor, Sally Evans, for the Evans Symposium! It was great to have many Garg lab members, past and present, together.

For those up bright and early Sunday morning, come hear from Georgia about some of the latest strained intermediate chemistry in the group! #ACSSpring2025 @uclachem

Delighted to share our latest research on a simple coupling reaction of two strained diradicaloids, just published in @Nature. Congrats to @TenaArismel, Christina, @HuilingShao, and Andrew, plus our amazing collaborator @Houk1000! PDF: https://t.co/FdfCE6HwnN @UCLA @uclachem

Exciting news! Texas A&M Prof. Osvaldo Gutierrez (BA, MS ’09, Houk lab), will join the UCLA faculty on 1/1/25 as a Full Professor of Chemistry and as the inaugural @UCLA_CSRCChicano Senior Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) STEM Faculty Director for UCLA! https://t.co/bp93wpw9Wg

playing around with dynamics of anti-Bredt olefin cycloadditions over here at @RowanSci—matching @GargLab @houk1000, cycloaddition to anthracene seems to be concerted but slightly asynchronous. pretty cool to watch these reactions take place:

Super excited to finally be able to share this work with yall!

Come join us for UCLA’s Exploring Your Universe (EYU) Event on Sunday, Nov 3! Our lab is hosting the ‘Chem Kids’ booth & Neil is giving a kid-friendly talk on ochem. Tons of other science activities too and it’s all FREE! @uclachem @uclaphysci @UCLA https://t.co/lXBPfGOSFY

Plz like this I want the pins. 🙏🏻

We’ve got three new Ph.D. candidates! A huge congratulations to Allison, Dani, and Zach for crushing their Candidacy Exams yesterday! 🍾@uclachem @ZachWaltersChem

A huge congratulations to all 17 members of our Molecular Strainers Team! https://t.co/Fr6eix5jLs. #HorizonPrize @RoySocChem #RSCPrizes @UCLA @uclachem @uclaphyssci

Be sure to check out our procedure for difluoromethylation of phenols in @OrgSynth! Congratulations to Allison, Jacob, and Zach! Thanks to @MaulideLab for checking! Read it here: https://t.co/SWVO4lXylV @uclachem

🥳👏Congrats to this year's NSF Graduate Research Awards & Honorable Mention recipients: AJ, Allison, Kevin, Antonio, Jeff, Nathalie, Chris, Amanda, Pujan, Elijah, Shawn, Devon, Dani, Zachary, Lianne, Kyle, Brock, Tucker, Hannah, Sophia! https://t.co/SmUN9F5Izj @uclaphyssi