Professor Ken Houk is elected a foreign member of the CAS in recognition of his scientific achievements and contributions to promoting the development of science and technology in China.  Election […]

Professor Ken Houk has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory in nanotechnology.   Since 1993, The Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory is awarded […]

Distinguished Research Professor Kendall Houk receives the 2021 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, one of the most important awards given by the ACS. The Roger Adams (RA) Award Ceremony […]

A team of 23 researchers from the Tang, Houk and Garg labs receive the RSC’s 2021 Horizon Prize: Bioorganic Chemistry Award for their discovery of a new class of enzymes.  […]

Professor Ken Houk is co-leader of research team that discovered selective photochemically-induced Diels-Alder reactions of nitrogen-containing molecules to give bicyclic products with high selectivity. Houk holds the Saul Winstein Distinguished […]

The García-Garibay, Garg, and Houk research groups explored the synthesis of challenging structural motifs with  photochemical reactions in crystals. An experimental team led by Dr. Jordan Dotson, recent joint graduate […]

A highly-collaborative study at UCLA by García-Garibay, Houk and Brown (Physics) groups show promising applications of dipolar rotors in the solid state.               The team’s […]

Ken Houk, postdoc Yike Zou, and collaborators design and improve, by directed evolution, most potent protein catalyst yet known for a Diels-Alder reaction.  The team’s paper titled “Efficient Lewis Acid […]