The Garg Group

UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Synthetic Organic Chemistry

March 2008

Neil Garg, Ben Boal, Colin Douglas, Jamie Im, Kevin Bahnck, Tehetena Mesganaw,

Alex Schammel, Sarah Bronner, Kyle Quasdorf, Allie Rhodes, Xia Tian (left to right).

Research in the Garg Laboratory at UCLA is directed toward the development of synthetic strategies and methods, while pursuing the total synthesis of bioactive molecules. Areas of interest include asymmetric catalysis, organometallic transformations, heterocycle synthesis, umpolung reactions, and cascade processes. Several representative synthetic targets are shown below.