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A big congratulations to second year graduate student Noah, who just gave a fantastic departmental seminar on strategies for the stereoselective synthesis of atropisomers. Great job, Noah! @UCLA @uclachem #nottobeturned

"A year after undermining Bredt’s rule," @UCLA scientists including Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Neil Garg (@GargLab), "have made cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations." newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-…

Please join us in welcoming our three new first year graduate students, Kasey, Abby, and Breanna. We can’t wait to see what great things these three accomplish during their time here! @uclachem

In honor of today being the International Day of Women in Science, we want to celebrate the amazing women in the @GargLab ! Cheers to these brilliant women we are so fortunate to work with! #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM @UCLA @uclachem

Congrats to Prof. Soumitra Athavale (@athavale_s) & UCLA alum Prof. Melissa Ramirez (PhD ’21; @GargLab, @houk1000) @UMNews, two of four nationwide recipients of the 2025 ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR) Ignition Grants! bit.ly/49S9fLN

Check out our studies on the generation and stereospecific trappings of 7-membered azacyclic allenes in @J_A_C_S now! Congrats to @GMS_chem, @ben_janda1 and Lauren! Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… @ucla @uclachem #from6to7

UCLA organic chemists can’t quit breaking the rules — and that’s a good thing! newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-…

Our study on Cubene and 1,7-Quadricyclene is now live in @NatureChemistry. We highlight their unusual geometries, bond orders, and synthetic utility to generate complexity. Congrats to Jiaming, Sarah, Christina, Ari, and Dom! nature.com/articles/s4155… @UCLA @UCLAchem @houk1000

🥳Congrats to @GargLab, @houk1000, & @yitang_ucla, recipients of a $2M state grant from the CA Dept of Cannabis Control to advance cannabinoid therapeutics through interdisciplinary research in synthesis, computation, and pharmacology! chemistry.ucla.edu/news/garg-houk…

Happy Holidays from the Garg Lab! @uclachem

We were fortunate to play a small role in this study led the Rao Lab @ucla_pathology. Congrats to all authors, including Georgia, Jacob, and Milauni! Paper: haematologica.org/article/view/1… @uclachem @UCLA @UCLAHealth uclahealth.org/news/release/u…

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah French (@Garg Lab) for being a finalist for the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research! Way to go Sarah! @uclachem @ucla

Congratulations to Marianna, who delivered an exceptional departmental literature seminar on leveraging red light to achieve selectivity in photochemical reactions! Nice job! @uclachem

Better, more accessible medicines start in labs like Osvaldo Gutierrez’s, where UCLA researchers are developing new methods that could advance health outcomes across the globe. #ResearchPowersProgress

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: youtu.be/XhxaNUF6lWk

@ZachWaltersChem @JOC_OL @UCLA @uclachem Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

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

Thrilled to share the first paper from our group at UCLA, online today in Science: “Biocatalytic, Asymmetric Radical Hydrogenation of Unactivated Alkenes” @uclachem @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

'Safety Letter: Evaluation of the Popular Oxidant 2-Iodoxybenzoic Acid (IBX)' from Organic Letters is currently free to read as an #ACSEditorsChoice. 📖 Read the article: go.acs.org/deU @uclachem @UCLA @Merck

Alumna Dr. Arismel Tena Meza (@GargLab) is featured in UCLA Newsroom's IN FOCUS: National Hispanic Heritage Month! newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-foc…