The research resulting from a collaboration with Scripps Research Institute was recently published in the journal Science. The Houk group with Jin Quan-Yu at the Scripps Research Institute published a […]

In the video titled “The quest to make any molecule, Total synthesis with Hosea Nelson”, Nelson talks about his work to help chemists build molecules.  In the interview with Chemical […]

The viscosity of an ordinary solvent (DMF), when trapped in a nanocage of a porous solid, is about 4 orders of magnitude greater than that of the bulk liquid.  The […]

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Roy Wollman, who has joined the department’s Biochemistry Division as an associate professor.  Roy was recruited through the QCBio faculty hiring initiative and […]

Professor Craig Merlic’s work as the nation’s foremost academic laboratory safety expert was recently highlighted in UCLA Newsroom’s in depth article. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): UCLA chemistry professor […]

UCLA chemists & alumnus collaboration leads to discovery of how to get a solid material to act like a liquid without actually turning it into liquid. The research could potentially […]

Many exciting things are happening in the UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC)!   In addition to sharing our news, we’d like to praise the current nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) graduate student […]

Washington Monthly ranked UCLA 8th among national universities & SJTU’s Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UCLA 2nd among US public institutions & 12th overall.   In May, London’s Times […]