A two-day conference in honor of Professor Kendall Houk will take place August 11-12, 2022, at UCLA’s Chemistry & Biochemistry Department. Professor Kendall N. Houk’s former graduate students and postdoctoral […]

A team led by Ken Houk has discovered a naturally occurring reaction in enzymes which could lead to new biological activities and pharmaceutical applications. Houk’s collaboration with two former group […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 12 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on December 4, 2018. The CCHF is an NSF-funded Centers for Chemical […]

In May and June 2018, symposia in Shenzhen, China, and Vancouver, Canada, honored Ken Houk, the UCLA Saul Winstein Research Professor in Organic Chemistry.  The 2nd International Symposium on Organic […]

On May 8, 2018, the Houk group hosted a virtual symposium on synthetic organic chemistry featuring talks by Sarah Reisman (Caltech) and Phil Baran (Scripps).   The first quarterly American Chemical Society (ACS)-DOC […]

Professor Dean Tantillo (PhD ’00, Houk) edits new book, Applied Theoretical Organic Chemistry, which features several UCLA connected chemists.  Now a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, […]

Professor Ken Houk and Dr Jacob Sanders in his group have provided computational evidence to support a new mechanism of action for FAD. Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) is a well-known […]

Houk team joins Nobelist Feringa and Wolf Prize Laureate Fujita to discover a Winstein/Roberts non-classical cation in an unexpected place. The latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical […]