Houk-Yang collaboration leads to enhanced perovskite solar cells

5 years ago

UCLA researchers and Ilhan Yavuz from Turkey, unraveled the surface defect-deactivation mechanism in perovskite solar cells using molecules found in tea, coffee and chocolate. The team’s investigation was reported in […]

Houk-Yang collaboration leads to enhanced perovskite solar cells
December 20

Houk group collaboration featured in Nature Chemistry

5 years ago

Collaboration by Professor Ken Houk’s group and Chinese researchers leads to breakthrough in the field of metal difluorocarbene chemistry.  In their paper, published in the September 23, 2019 issue of […]

Houk group collaboration featured in Nature Chemistry
September 27

Centenary Lecture in honor of Nankai University

5 years ago

Professor Ken Houk recently visited Tianjin, China to give a special lecture to commemorate Nankai University’s 100th birthday. In honor of Nankai University’s birthday, Houk gave a special lecture titled […]

Centenary Lecture in honor of Nankai University
September 26

Professor Ken Houk co-authors new organic chemistry textbook

5 years ago

Organic chemistry professor Ken Houk is co-author of a newly released textbook titled “Organic Chemistry: Theory, Reactivity and Mechanisms in Modern Synthesis”. Houk’s co-author is Professor Pierre Vogel of the […]

Professor Ken Houk co-authors new organic chemistry textbook
September 6

CCHF C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium 14

6 years ago

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposum 14 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF). Professor Ken Houk’s group hosted the live virtual symposium on July 2, 2019, at UCLA […]

CCHF C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium 14
July 5

Race between computational groups ends in dead heat

6 years ago

New paper describes race between groups at UCLA and the Fukui Institute to determine the mechanism of a novel rearrangement discovered in Stoltz lab at Caltech. Published in the Journal […]

Race between computational groups ends in dead heat
April 2

CCHF C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium 13

6 years ago

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 13 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on March 5, 2019. Professor Ken Houk’s group hosted the live virtual symposium at […]

CCHF C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium 13
March 6

2018-19 Andrew Streitwieser Lecturer

6 years ago

Kendall Houk, UCLA’s Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry, gave the Andrew Steitwieser lecture at UC Berkeley on January 29, 2019.   In Houk’s lecture titled “Mechanisms and Dynamics of Pericyclic Reactions […]

2018-19 Andrew Streitwieser Lecturer
February 4