Garg Lab UCLA

🦋Radicals and diradicaloids harness the latent energy of strained cycloalkanes, revealing how diradical character and strain release dictate reactivity, selectivity, and molecular complexity 🧪🚀 @J_A_C_S @GargLab @houk1000 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Another Ph.D candidate just dropped! Marianna passed her candidacy exam with flying colors! @uclachem

We recently bid farewell to postdoc Sarah, who will be returning down under to begin her independent career at @ChemistryUoM. Best of luck on this exciting journey!🏃‍♀️🟧 #MasteroftheCube

Finally, please join us in wishing luck to future Dr. Lauren Van Auken as she heads to @Caltech for her Ph.D. studies! 💜🐻 @uclachem #FutureDr

Good luck to Dr. Jordan Gonzalez as he heads down to San Diego, CA to begin his career in medicinal chemistry at @VividionRx! ⚾️🐸 @uclachem #DrGOAT

We wish Dr. Georgia Scherer (@GMS_chem) all the best on her next journey in medicinal chemistry at @neurocrine in San Diego, CA! ☀️🏃‍♀️ @uclachem #DrTrailblazer

We recently celebrated our newest grads: Dr. Georgia Scherer (@GMS_chem), Dr. Jordan Gonzalez, and Lauren Van Auken! We are so proud of all of you! @uclachem @UCLA_Alumni

Hot off the press! Our Focus Article in @ScienceAdvances on rule-breaking chemistry from our lab in collaboration with @houk1000 is out now. Congratulations to the authors, keep breaking the rules! Read it here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @uclachem

A HUGE congratulations to Neil and all lab members, past and present, for receiving the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize!

We have a new Ph.D. candidate! Congratulations to Noah for crushing his candidacy exam! @uclachem

Marianna and Aimee just published a method to synthesize the common oxidant IBX in @OrgSynth. A big thank you to @MaulideLab for checking, and congratulations to the authors! Read the prep here: orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep… @uclachem

🎉Congratulations to the 2026 Senior Foote Fellows: Branden Chaffin (Doyle lab), Allison Clark (Garg lab), Alexander Maertens (Doyle/Houk labs), Christina Rivera (Garg lab), and Giulianna Miseo (Garg lab)! @GargLab @houk1000 bit.ly/SeniorFooteFel…

Another recent publication from the lab: Christina and Ben published an Ir-catalyzed borylation of silanes in @OrgSynth. Thank you to the Rousseaux Group for checking, and congratulations to all authors! Read it here: orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep… @uclachem

Recently, Ben and Allison published a procedure for the enzymatic saponification of esters containing β-leaving groups in @OrgSynth. Many thanks to Kevin Campos and the team @Merck for checking, and congrats to the authors! Read it here: orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep… @uclachem

Our amazing undergrad Lauren is absolutely crushing it! She was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and has committed to Caltech for her PhD studies. Well done, Lauren, we can't wait to see the great things you accomplish! @uclachem @CaltechCCE @NSF #NSFGRFP

Exciting Garg lab news: first year graduate students Breanna, Abby, and Kasey were awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Well done to all three of you on this accomplishment! #NSFGRFP @uclachem @NSF @UCLA

Congratulations to second year graduate student Aimee, who gave an exciting departmental seminar on the use of strain release methodologies for the synthesis of bridged azabicycles. Awesome work, Aimee!

A decade-long passion project led by John Billingsley and made possible by uninterrupted collaboration with the great team at @GargLab. Propellane alkaloid discovery, biosynthesis and total synthesis. @UclaCBE @uclachem @eXoZymes pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

We're excited to share our latest total synthesis research, in collaboration with @yitang_ucla! The synthesis features a key interrupted Fischer indolization to form the azapropellane core. A big congrats to all authors! Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @uclachem @UCLA

The Bruin alumna and new author reflects on her path, from first-gen college student to professorship and her own lab. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/extrao…