Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

Garg Lab @ UCLA. Group updates, publications, educational initiatives, and other fun stuff. Joined April 2017

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UCLA Chem & Biochem @uclachem

5 days ago

🎉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…

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

6 days ago

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

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

2 weeks ago

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

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

a month ago

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

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

2 months ago

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

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

2 months ago

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!

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Yi Tang @yitang_ucla

2 months ago

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…

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

2 months ago

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

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UCLA @UCLA

2 months ago

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…

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

2 months ago

Our fourth year graduate students Zach, Allison, and Dani, as well as postdoc Jiaming, will be presenting on Wednesday on strained intermediates! Hope to see you there! #ACSSpring2026 @uclachem @AmerChemSociety

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

2 months ago

@GargLab members will be presenting at the upcoming ACS meeting in Atlanta! Neil will be presenting on Tuesday to celebrate our chemical grandpa @brianstoltz70, and there are four talks from group members on Wednesday. We’d love to see you there! #ACSSpring2026 @uclachem

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

3 months ago

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

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The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation @dreyfusfndn

3 months ago

"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-…

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

3 months ago

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

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

4 months ago

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

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UCLA Chem & Biochem @uclachem

4 months ago

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

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

4 months ago

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

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UCLA @UCLA

4 months ago

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

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Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab

4 months ago

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

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UCLA Chem & Biochem @uclachem

5 months ago

🥳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…