The Houk group with Bin Tan’s group at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) discover first asymmetric four-component Ugi Reaction. The team reports a major breakthrough in the […]

The team has discovered a chemical reaction that might someday be used to process petroleum waste into useful compounds. Their paper titled “Teaching an old carbocation new tricks: Intermolecular C–H […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 10 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on July 10, 2018. The CCHF is an NSF-funded Centers for Chemical […]

With the Arnold group at Caltech, Houk’s group characterizes an unusual reactive carbene intermediate in an artificial metalloenzyme that functionalizes Si-H bonds. The team’s findings were reported in a paper […]

Collaboration with researchers from China has led to development of device which could illuminate the mechanism of important chemical and biological processes. The results of the collaboration with scientists from […]

Professor Ken Houk is one of the featured speakers at a special symposium at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Theoretical & Computational […]

Professors Miguel Garcia-Garibay and Ken Houk are part of a team to form a crystal out of molecules that each has a solid exterior but contains moving parts. Their findings […]

UCLA researchers have developed a novel method for creating graphene nanoribbons which can be used to make better electronics. In a study published in October, researchers led by chemistry professors […]