Group Members

Primary Investigator
Post-doctoral Members
Current Graduate Students
Current Undergraduate Students
Former Members

The Boss

Prof. Mahdi Abu-Omar

mao@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1515



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Pictured here with our Stopped-Flow UV-vis spectrometer, capable of kinetic experiments in the millisecond time scale.

Post-docs and Visiting Professors

None currently

Graduate Students
Joachin Arias

arias@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1210

Current Project:  Oxygen-atom transfer catalysis

Nicola Edwards

nedwards@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1230

Current Project:  Oxo-bridged dimanganese catalysts for reduction of H2O

Rebecca Eikey

eikey@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1210

Current Project:  Nitrogen-atom transfer

Andy Han

ahan@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1230

Current Project:  Phenylalanine Hydroxylase

Johnny Hwang

jhwang@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1220

Current Project:  Vanadium Catalysed Oxidations in Ionic Liquids

Armando Durazo

email
Molecular Sciences 1210

Current Project: 2H-NMR studies of MTO oxidations

Lee McPherson

lmcphers@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1220

Current Project:  Oxoanion Reduction by Rhenium Catalysis

Kimberly Miller

kjm@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1210

Current Project:  Palladium catalyzed alkoxylations

Craig Newlands

newlands@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1210

Current Project:  Catalyzed Oxidations in Ionic Liquids

Mui Sam

mui@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1230

Current Project:  Phenylalanine Hydroxylase

Alon Volner

volner@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1230

Current Project:  Phenylalanine Hydroxylase

Jerome Zodiakis

zodiakis@chem.ucla.edu
Molecular Sciences 1230

Current Project:  Phenylalanine Hydroxylase

Undergraduate Students