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Garg Lab @ UCLA. Group updates, publications, educational initiatives, and other fun stuff.
Joined April 2017
We are delighted to share our total synthesis of lissodendoric acid A using a strained cyclic allene. @ScienceMagazine Congrats to “Team Lisso”!
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Thrilled to share our new study of anti-Bredt olefins in @ScienceMagazine. Congrats to the authors for this nicely timed study, 100 yrs after “Bredt’s Rule” came to be. Read it here: @ucla @uclachem @houk1000
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Check out our publication in @Nature in collaboration with the Tang, Houk, & Zhou Labs on an Enzymatic Alder–Ene Reaction! Congrats to the authors including Garg Lab members Sarah, Jason, Joyann, & Elias! @yitang_ucla @houk1000 @uclachem @uclanewsroom
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We are excited to share our publication in @NatureSynthesis on the generation and reactivity of unsymmetrical strained heterocyclic allenes! Congrats to Andrew and @TenaArismel! @uclachem Read more here:
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Starting off with the Fr of #Frachelson: we wish Dr. Francesca Ippoliti all the best as she moves to Madison, WI to begin her postdoctoral fellowship in the @uwyoongroup💡@TehshikYoon @UWMadisonChem @uclachem
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May the fourth be with you! Also, check out our new publication in @J_A_C_S on catalyst-controlled annulations of strained cyclic allenes! Congrats to Dominick, Matt, Georgia, and lab alumna Sarah! @uclachem #usetheforce
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Good news for Neil and a huge win for science education!
Congratulations! UCLA professor Neil Garg has won the country’s most important teaching award. and its $250,000 prize
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Celebrating our recent publication in Org Lett on the nickel-catalyzed conversion of amides to carboxylic acids with a virtual high-five! Congrats @RachelRKnapp and @AnaBulger! @JOC_OL @uclachem
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Excited for NellyG to serve as Department Chair! Congrats Neil.
Professor Neil Garg has been named the next Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry effective July 1, 2019. @GargLab @UCLAnewsroom …
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Congratulations to all the former and current lab members that helped make winning the 2022 #Mukaiyama award possible! 😃.
Department Chair Professor Neil Garg wins the 2022 #Mukaiyama award in recognition of his contributions to synthetic #organicchemistry. Congrats! @garglab @uclanewsroom
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We are excited to share some of our efforts toward the total synthesis of keramaphidin B using a strained cyclic allene! Congrats to Milauni, Jordan, and Logan, better known as “Team Kemit”!.@Milaunii @Lbachchem @uclachem
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We are delighted to share our recent study in @J_A_C_S - A collaborative approach to strictosidine and aryne derivatives with @houk1000 & @yitang_ucla. Congrats to all authors, including our lab members Sarah, Lucas, and Veronica. Read the full story here:
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O-Chem (Re)Activity Book - free download! Perfect for kids stuck at home. Developed by Neil’s @Baylor students Izza and Alyssa with help from @UCLA grad students Francesca, Jason, and Matt. Thx 2 @2xDC. @uclachem @uclanewsroom @BaylorCBC @cenmag
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We are delighted to share our study of Diels–Alder cycloadditions of oxacyclic allenes and pyrones. Congrats to Laura, Milauni, Lisa, and Sarah! #WomeninSTEM @uclachem Read it here:
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Don’t miss the Nuno/Neil double-header for the DOC Virtual Symposium Series, tomorrow 10/21 at 9am PST! @MaulideLab @uclachem @ACSorganic
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Hot on the heels of 420, check out our electrochemical oxidation of THC - a foundational step toward a marijuana "breathalyzer" now available @JOC_OL. Congrats to @thederzzz! @IKAworldwide @uclachem @ucla #SafetyFirst #DoingItForTheKids
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HUGE congrats to our newest grads: Dr. Rachel Knapp, Dr. Francesca Ippoliti, & Dr. Jason Chari! 🍾🥂 We were also so happy to have alumni - Drs. Sarah Anthony (‘21), Rob Susick (‘20), & Melissa Ramirez (‘21) - join us for the hooding ceremony🥳 @uclachem @UCLA_Alumni #Frachelson
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This project brought together chemists from 4 different continents to develop an alternative synthesis of Remdesivir’s nucleobase, a treatment for COVID-19! Check out our publication in collaboration with the @SarpongLab! @uclachem @ucla @uclanewsroom
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Congrats to Georgia, Jordan, and Laura for publishing the synthesis of furoindolines from lactol precursors via an Interrupted Fischer Indolization in @OrgSynth! Thanks to @PCchemgroup for checking! Read it here: @uclachem @GMS_chem @LauraWonilowicz
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Thrilled to share our latest publication in @angew_chem on the reductive arylation of amides using nickel catalysis Congrats to Tim, Milauni, Emma, and Junyong! @uclachem @uclanewsroom @timboit @Milaunii @BakerTripp #TwitterlessJunyong
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Today we bid farewell to Dr. Evan Darzi. Thank you for being an endless source of positivity, creativity, and ‘dad jokes’. Best of luck to you and the fam in AZ. Icagen is lucky to have you and we will miss you! 👋 @thederzzz @uclachem
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Happy to have Dr. Daniel Nasrallah join the team as an Adjunct Assistant Professor via the @uclachem Teacher-Scholar program! Daniel grew up in North Carolina, did his PhD in the @SchindlerLab, and enjoys rock climbing in his free time! 🧗🏻
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Congrats to @RachelRKnapp, @chari_jason, and @timboit on their article in J. Chem. Educ. about the virtual undergrad course they designed and taught called ‘Catalysis in Modern Drug Discovery!’ 🥳 @ACSPublications @uclachem @UCLAnewsroom
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Happy Holidays from the Garg Lab! We hope everyone has a wonderful, restful, and safe holiday season😃✨
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Welcome to LA! We are very much looking forward to meeting everyone in the group!.
We are excited to welcome Professor Abigail Doyle and her group to @UCLA! Prof. Doyle joins UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry as the Saul Winstein Chair of #OrganicChemistry. 😊Learn more here:
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Happy International Women’s Day!! We are so grateful to be able to train alongside such incredible scientists! #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM @UCLA
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It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years! We are so grateful to Gargoyles past and present for being such incredible group members. Special s/o to Elaina for decorating this delicious Boston crème cake for us today! 🎂🥳#LabBirthday #FantasticFifteen @uclachem
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Kicking off the new academic year with an inspiring talk by @UCLA's very own Professor Hosea Nelson in our Organic Colloquium. Congrats to Hosea and his team for their incredible research accomplishments! @uclachem @TheNelsonLab
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Be sure to check out our recent publication with @GaribayLab in @J_A_C_S on the discovery and total synthesis of psychotriadine - Way to go @chemdots and Logan! @uclachem @ucla @UCLAnewsroom
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We are delighted to share our recent study in @J_A_C_S on the palladium-catalyzed annulations of strained cyclic allenes. Congrats to Andrew, Dominick, and Matt! 🎉 . Read the full story here: @uclachem @UCLAnewsroom @dxmwit_chem @mmcveigh81
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Congratulations to Garg Lab alumnus @_Picazo for winning the NIH K99/R00 award! Excited for your continued success in academia💯💯💯 @JacobsenLab @HarvardCCB @uclachem
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Thrilled to share our latest publication in @NatureComms! A platform for performing aryne chemistry ‘on-the-complex’: Way to go Jason, Katie, and Robert! 🎊🎊@uclachem @uclanewsroom @chari_jason @robsus220 #TheAnnulators
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Looking for beta testers for our new Virtual Reality OChem educational resources! DM us if you have access to one of the VR headsets shown and would like to help 😎 @uclachem #virtualreality
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Super excited to share our first virtual reality chemistry resources with the world! Check out our tutorial on how you can explore organic chemistry with a VR headset: Thanks @2xDC! . @UCLAChem @UCLA @UCLAnewsroom #virtualreality #vrchem
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Kaylie👩🏻🔬and Elaina👩🏻🔬are back with the next edition of The Organic Coloring Book: Thanks to @jenheemstra @amyfaithho @mramirez9409 @sarahmay333 @TonaVeronica @RachelRKnapp. And a huge shout-out to Dan Caspi @2xDC! @uclachem @uclanewsroom @UCLA
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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: @uclachem
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Happy to share the release of Backside Attack, a new iOS game/app created by Neil, six former UG students, and @2xDC . Teaches some ochem fundamentals and is pretty fun too. Enjoy and please share with students! @BacksideApp
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Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science from the Garg Lab! #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM @uclachem
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#TBT. NellyG and Richmond @sarponggroup unleashed back-to-back papers in @NatureChemistry this week. Reminiscent of the old dragmacidin beards from the @stoltzgroup days.
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Huge congratulations to former graduate student Melissa (@mramirez9409), who will be beginning her independent career at the University of Minnesota! We can't wait to see all the amazing work to come out of the Ramirez lab! @uclachem @UMNChemistry.
Ecstatic to share that I’ll be starting the Ramirez laboratory in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities this January 2025! 🧪 🧪 @UMNChemistry @UMNews
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Hot off the press is our full account on the total synthesis of Lissodendoric Acid A in @angew_chem. Congrats to “Team Lisso”! Read it here: @uclachem
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Was honored to have my undergrad advisor, Professor Marc Walters, as my guest at the Blavatnik Awards dinner. #TBThursday to the last time we dressed up for a picture together circa 1999.
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We're alkynes of excited for Evan and Joyann's latest publication in @angew_chem! Rapid access to diverse heterocyclic conjugated scaffolds via strained intermediates. Thanks to @ChemRxiv for hosting the preprint. @uclachem.
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We are excited to share our perspective in @ChemicalScience on advancing global chemical education through interactive teaching tools. Way to go Francesca and Jason!! 🥳 Check it out here: @uclachem @chari_jason
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A huge congratulations to Georgia and Jordan for crushing their Candidacy Exams yesterday! And a special shout-out to Grandpa Stoltz for crashing the after-party. @GMS_chem @brianstoltz70 @uclachem
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We’ll take any reason to get dressed up. celebrating our soon to be graduates - Tim, Melissa, & Sarah - is as good as any 🥳 We are incredibly thankful to all be fully vaccinated so the whole lab could celebrate in person! #vaccinated #FlashbackFriday
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Congrats to Zach and Dani for publishing a procedure for Ni-catalyzed amination of an aryl chloride in @OrgSynth! Thanks to @KBrownLab for checking! Read it here: @uclachem @ZachWaltersChem
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Happy Thanksgiving from the Garg Lab! Hope everyone has a restful break 🦃✨
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Be sure to check out Neil's talk tomorrow! Rumor has it some entertaining pictures of the awardee, Richmond Sarpong, will be revealed🤔 @SarpongGroup @uclachem #ACSChicago
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Huge congrats to our freshly minted Doctors: Jacob (#26), Jordan (#27), Robert (#28), and Michael (#29)! Keeping up the tradition of 100% grad rate in 5 years or less!🎓🥳 @uclachem #PhD #Graduation2020 #AlbumDroppingSoon @chemdots @robsus220
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Continuing with the ‘achel’ of #Frachelson: best of luck to Dr. Rachel Knapp as she begins her career in industry at Eli Lilly @LillyPad in San Diego, CA ☀️! @RachelRKnapp @uclachem
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Just in time for the holidays, here is The ADULT Organic Coloring Book brought to you by Jacob, Evan @thederzzz, and Neil. RT to show your support for STEM literacy and for a chance to win free copies. Shout-out to Dan Caspi @2xDC! @uclachem @UCLA
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Super excited to welcome this sweet new glovebox to the lab! @uclachem @RachelRKnapp @chari_jason #TGIF
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Kids ❤️ coloring&science! Check out The Organic Coloring Book, by Neil & daughters. #doingitforthekids #RealTimeChem
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Back to back publications for soon-to-be Doctor Melissa Ramirez with @houk1000 & lab alumni Drs. Evan Darzi and Joyann Donaldson! Be sure to check out our latest publication in @angew_chem on cycloaddition cascades of strained alkynes and oxadiazinones:
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Check out this NYU podcast that dives into Neil’s time as a Resident Assistant in the NYU dorms and how he got into chemistry! 🧪Also, please enjoy this #ThrowbackPic of Neil with true #HairGoals @nyuniversity @nyuchemistry @NYUCAS @uclachem @uclanewsroom
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Congrats to Neil, @HeatherDMaynard, and 4 other UCLA Professors! Just named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. @uclachem
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Delighted to share our collaborative study with the Thompson group @USCChemistry in @ChemicalScience on leveraging hetarynes to access π-extended donors for TADF emitters! Congrats to all authors, including our own Katie, Jason, and Robert 🎉 @uclachem
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Cheers to Garg Lab alumnus and @BaranLabReads postdoc Joel Smith for landing a faculty position at Florida State University! You’ve come a long way Professor Smith. Go get ‘em! 🍾🍾🍾
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We were so excited to celebrate our newest grads this past weekend: Dr. Katie Spence, Dr. Andrew Kelleghan, & Dr. Milauni Mehta! 🎉🍾@uclachem @UCLA_Alumni #Milandie
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We wish Dr. Melissa Ramirez all the best as she continues her academic career as a postdoctoral researcher in the @thestoltzgroup at @Caltech! @houk1000 @uclachem @mramirez9409
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Check out this collaborative @ACSCatalysis paper led by Yi Tang’s group on the enzymatic pathway to nepetalactol. Kudos to Francesca from our lab, who synthesized biosynthetic intermediates needed to validate the pathway @uclachem @OConnor_lab @yitang_ucla
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Happy Thanksgiving from the Garg Lab (ft. the last few in lab before the break😃). Hope everyone has a wonderful and restful holiday weekend! 🦃
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It was great to welcome back Garg lab alum Prof. Joel Smith (@AnotherSmithLab), who delivered an outstanding lecture on his lab's chemistry @ChemistryFsu! #chillers #handcolumns #alkaloids
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Check out our recent publication on silyl tosylate precursors to strained cyclic alkynes and allenes. Nice work @mmcveigh81, Andrew, Michael, and @RachelRKnapp! @JOC_OL @uclachem @UCLAnewsroom
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have launched a new educational website: Time to put your ❤️❤️ for chemistry to the test! @uclachem @ucla @uclanewsroom @dailybruin.
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Congratulations to @LauraWonilowicz and @AnaBulger for receiving the 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!! 🎊 @uclachem @UCLAnewsroom @UCLA #grfp #WomenInSTEM ✨
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Congratulations to soon-to-be Doctor Melissa Ramirez @mramirez9409 on her latest joint publication with us and @houk1000 on the origins of endo selectivity in Diels–Alder reactions of cyclic allene dienophiles in @angew_chem! Full text: @uclachem
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Shoutout to all Garg Lab members past and present for helping the lab become what it is today and congrats to Neil for being one of the 2020 finalists!! @uclachem @ucla @BlavatnikAwards.
Congratulations to the 2020 Finalists of the Blavatnik National Awards!.@Dichtel @Dichtelians @NorthwesternU.@UCLAChem @UCLAnewsroom @ucla @garglab @uclaphyssci .@InnovateUCLA @PrincetonMolBio #FightingPain #PrincetonMolBio @Princeton #Blavatnik2020
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A big welcome to our newest postdoctoral fellow Sarah (@Teamfrench_)! Sarah joins us from the University of Adelaide, where she completed her PhD with Prof. Jonathan George. She has traveled to over 30 countries and enjoys running! @AdelaideChem @uclachem
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Thanks to @TehshikYoon and Martin Eastgate for visiting @uclachem and for delivering amazing talks for our BMS lectureship!
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Surprised our beloved mentor- Happy Birthday, Neil aka “NellyG,” aka “Trueblood,” aka “Gargy”!
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Rest in peace Vic Snieckus. An amazing friend, collaborator, and mentor. Sharing some of my favorite pictures of Vic (GRC 2013). Always full of life, classiness, and wisdom. -nkg @QueensChem @queensu
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Our joint farewell party for visiting-scholar Lisa and postdoc Jacob was a bittersweet goodbye🥲 Lisa will be returning to the @GloriusGroup to work on her Master’s thesis and Jacob will be starting as a medicinal chemist @Terray_Tx. Best of luck to you both!
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