Post on 18-Dec-2021
NEIL GARG
Education
B.S in Chemistry from NYU
Conducted research with Professor Wais Hosseini in Strasbourg, France
Ph.D in 2005 from California Institute of Technology under professor Brian Stoltz
Joined Professor Larry Overman At UC as NIH Postdoctoral Scholar
2007, joined UCLA
Promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, then Full Professor in 2013
Career
From 2012-2016, Garg was the Vice
Chair for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Currently, he is serving as
Department Chair
In 2018, Garg was appointed as the
inaugural holder of the Kenneth N.
Trueblood Endowed chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry
ResearchDevelopment of synthetic strategies and methods that enable the synthesis of complex bioactive molecules
◦ Transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of unconventional electrophiles,such as esters and amides, using non-precious metal catalysis, and bench stable preparations of catalysts.
New tactics to synthesize functionalized heterocycles, including ‘interrupted Fischerindolization cascades and the manipulation of cyclic alkynes and allenes
Total synthesis of complex small molecules, such as drugs and natural products.
Recent lab update
References◦ https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/directory/garg-neil-k
◦ https://garg.chem.ucla.edu/publications
◦ https://garg.chem.ucla.edu/research
◦ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.8b03404