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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]
