Garg Lab UCLA

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

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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: https://t.co/gR4LhRSR4o
@uclachem

[UCLA Chem & Biochem @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 https://t.co/ePGjmOhVAB

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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: https://t.co/GjhqbR5Qio
@uclachem

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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: https://t.co/HwwqwsSUAN
@uclachem

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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!

[Yi Tang @yitang_ucla]

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

https://t.co/ULuJNgMYbd

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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: https://t.co/Ld9o5xnmjw
@uclachem @UCLA

[UCLA @UCLA]

The Bruin alumna and new author reflects on her path, from first-gen college student to professorship and her own lab. https://t.co/uL14pV5X5P

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

@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

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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

[The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation @dreyfusfndn]

"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."

https://t.co/bfLYLzsxNr

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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

[UCLA Chem & Biochem @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! https://t.co/uBkLkR9Ui1

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

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: https://t.co/2yGQgT4Lrk
@ucla @uclachem #from6to7

[UCLA @UCLA]

UCLA organic chemists can’t quit breaking the rules — and that’s a good thing! https://t.co/bHbhbLNTvh