MGG Group in Febrary 2008
Group News:
June 10, 2009: Cortnie Vogelsberg and Greg Kuzmanich (pictured below) returned from their respective
three-month MCTP
internships at the
universities of Milano and Erlangen. Cortnie did research on structured silicates in the group of Prof. Piero
Sozzani,
while Greg worked in the group of Prof. Dirk Guldi doing various pump-probe experiments. Welcome back, guys!
May 27, 2009: List of publications updated.
Feb. 21, 2009:
Photo gallery
of group events updated.
Feb. 22, 2008: Melissa Padilla receives the Award for Outstanding Presentation at
the
NSF-CAMP Symposium at UC Irvine. Congratulations, Melissa!
Feb. 16, 2008:
Miguel Garcia-Garibay elected as a
Fellow of the American
Association for
the Advancement of Science.
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Research Highlights:
May 27, 2009: Computational predictions by Luis Campos, a synthetic method developed by Marino Resendiz,
and remarkable analytical
procedure
developed by Farnosh Family are among the ingredients used in a recent JACS article describing the first example of a radical pair reaction
that occurs with a double memory of chirality.
April 20, 2009: The MGG group's P3 team, composed of Farnosh Family, Saori
Shiraki
and
Greg Kuzmanich, received honorable mention for their design and
proposal on eco-friendly, solvent-free synthesis of natural
products at the Environmental
Protection Agency's 2009 P3: People,
Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability.
Farnosh (pictured) presented the group's work in a poster
at the
competition, which took place in Washington, D.C., April 18-20, to coincide with Earth Day.
Read their project abstract, and learn more about the
12 Principles of Green Chemistry and the
American Chemical Society's Green
Chemistry Institute.
Feb. 3, 2009: Research by recent grad student Hung Dang published in Organic and
Biomolecular Chemistry shows that it
is
possible to generate polar oxonium ylide intermediates within neutral crystals. The scope of
reactions in crystalline solids keeps increasing.
Feb. 21, 2008: Domino-like photodecarbonylation research published in JACS
gets
highlighted in Nature. Read the report by Leonard MacGillivray.
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Research:
Solid state organic chemistry: Structure-reactivity correlations;
supramolecular organic photochemistry and absolute asymmetric synthesis;
chemical dynamics in organic crystals; X-ray diffraction and solid state NMR;
crystal engineering and organic materials science.
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Contact:
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
607 Charles E. Young Drive East
Los Angeles, CA 90095
mgg@chem.ucla.edu
Office:
Molecular Sciences Building, Room 4505-C
Phone: 310-825-3159
Labs:
MSB 4240, MSB 4241,
MSB 4235,
MSB 4210
Links:
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Materials Creation Training Program (MCTP)
Organization for Cultural Diversity in Chemistry
ICCOSS XVII (2005, UCLA)
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