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Miguel Garcia-Garibay, Ph.D.

Website:

Miguel Garcia-Garibay's Home Page.

Email Address:

mgg@chem.ucla.edu

Laboratory Address:

Mol Sci Bldg 4235

Work Address:

Mol Sci Bldg 4505C

Lab Number:

1 (310) 206-1275

Work Phone Number:

1 (310) 825-3159
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry
Member
California NanoSystems Institute

A Short Biography:

Professor Garcia-Garibay received his B.S. degree in 1985 at the Universidad Michoacan in Mexico, and his PhD in 1988 from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the the University of British Columbia and at Columbia University, he joined the faculty at UCLA in 1992.

Awards and Honors:

UCLA Herbert Newby McCoy Award (1999) ; UCLA Dean's Marshal Award for the Dvision of Physical Sciences (1997) ; NSF Career Award (1996) ; UCLA Faculty Development Award (1995) ; The American Chemical Society; The Inter American Photochemical Society; Elected to The American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008); UCLA University Graduate Fellowship ; University of British Columbia Fellowship for Undergraduate Research

Research Interest:

The Garcia-Garibay research group is dedicated to the study of solids and crystalline materials spanning a wide range of properties and length scales. There are four main research thrusts in the group (I) The design of reactions in crystals for both synthetic and materials applications; (II) The design of solid state materials with functions that rely on controlled mechanical changes at the molecular level, including electrooptics, ferroelectrics, etc. (III) The use of nanoparticles to control photochemical processes, and (IV) the study of structure- reactivity correlations based on solid state reaction rates and X-Ray structural analyses, including the control of reactive intermediates and a better understanding of quantum mechanical tunneling.


Detailed Biography:

Prof. Garcia-Garibay has been a Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry since 1992. He came to UCLA after doing Postdoctoral research at Columbia University, which followed his PhD studies at the University of British Columbia, in Canada. The earlier portions of Dr. Garcia-Garibay education were completed in his native, Mexico, at the Universidad Michoacana, where he did research on natural product isolation and characterization. Dr. Garcia-Garibay was promoted to full professor in the year 2000 and he has served as Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry since 2005. Dr. Garcia-Garibay is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Organic Chemistry. He has been a member of the CNSI since 2005. His current research efforts are aimed to the development of artificial molecular machinery in highly organized crystalline media, and to the development of green chemistry by taking advantage of organic reactions in molecular nanocrystals.

Publications:

Gould S. L.; Rodriguez, R. B.; Garcia-Garibay, M A.   Synthesis and Solid State Dynamics of Molecular Dirotors, Tetrahedron, 2008; 64: 8336-8345.
Chin, K.K.; Trevithick-Sutton, C.C.; McCallum, J.; Jockusch, S.; Turro, N.J.; Scaiano, J.C.; Foote, C.S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.   Quantitative Determination of Singlet Oxygen Generated by Excited State Aromatic Amino Acids, Proteins, and Immunoglobulins, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2008; 130: 6912-6913.
Kuzmanich, G.; Natarajan, A,; Chin, K. K.; Veerman, M.; Mortko, C. J.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.   Solid State Photodecarbonylation of Diphenylcyclopropenone: A Singlet State Quantum Chain Reaction Made Possible by Ultrafast Energy Transfer, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2008; 130: 1140-1141.
Resendiz, M. J. E.; Taing, J.; Khan, S. I.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.   Unexpected Solid State Photochemistry of an apha-Thiophenyl-alpha'-Thiophenyl-S,S-dioxo Substituted Ketone, J. Org. Chem, 2008; 73: 638-643.
Natarajan, A.; Ng, D.; Yang, Z.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.   A Green Chemistry Method for the Synthesis of Compounds with Adjacent Quaternary Stereogenic Centers: Parallel Syntheses of (+)- and (-)-alpha-Cuparenone by Radical Combination in Crystalline Solids, Angew Chem. Int. Ed, 2007; 46: 6485-6487.
Grassian, V.H.; Meyer G.; Abruna, H.; Coates, G.W.: Achenie, L.E.; Allison, T.; Brunschwig, B.; Ferry, J.; Garcia-Garibay, M.; Gardea-Torresdey, J.; Grey, C.P.; Hutchison, J.; Li, C.J.; Liotta, C.; Ragauskas, A.; Minteer, S.; Mueller, K.; Roberts, J.; Sadik, O.; Schmehl R.; Schneider, W.; Selloni, A.; Stair, P.; Stewart, J.; Thorn, D; Tyson, J.; Voelker, B.; White, J.M.; Wood-Black, F.   Chemistry for a Sustainable Environment, Environmental Science and Technology, 2007; 41: 4840-4846.
Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A.   Molecular Crystals on the Move: From Single Crystal-to-Single Crystal Photoreactions to Molecular Machinery, Angew Chem. Int. Ed, 2007; 8945-8947: .
Chin, K.K.; Natarajan, A.; Gard, M.; Campos, L. M.; Johansen, E.; Shepherd, H.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.   Organic Molecular Nanocrystals: Triplet -Triplet Absorption, Phosphorescence, and Circular Dichroism of Chiral Crystals of Benzophenone, Chem. Comm, 2007; 4266-4268.
Resendiz, Marino J.E.; Taing, Jennifer; Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A.   Photodecarbonylation of 1,3-Dithiophenyl Propanone: Using Nanocrystals to Overcome the Filtering Effect of Highly Absorbing Trace Impurities, J. Org. Chem, 2007; 9: 4351-4354.
Campos, L. M.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.   Reactive Intermediates in Crystals: Form and Function, Reviews of Reactive Intermediate Chemistry, Platz, M. S.; Jones, M.; Moss, R. Eds., 2007; .
Khuong, T.-A. V.; Dang, H.; Jarowski, P. D.; Emily F. Maverick and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay   Rotational Dynamics of a Crystalline Molecular Gyroscope by Variable Temperature 13C NMR, 2H NMR, X-Ray Diffraction and Force Field Calculations, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2007; 129: 839-845.
Nunez, Jose E.; Natarajan, Arunkumar; Khan, Saeed I.; Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A.   Synthesis of a Triply-Bridged Molecular Gyroscope by a Directed Meridional Cyclization Strategy, Organic Lett, 2007; 9: 3559-3561.
Jarowski, P.D.; Houk, K. N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.   The Importance of Correlated Motions on the Low Barrier Rotational Potentials of Crystalline Molecular Gyroscopes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007; 129: 3110-3117.
Natarajan, A.; Tsai, C. K.; Khan, S. I.; McCarren, P.; Houk, K. N.; Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A.   The Photoarrangement of alpha-Santonin is a Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Reaction: A Long Kept Secret in Solid State Organic Chemistry Revealed, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007; 129: 9846-9847.
Karlen, Steven D.; Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A.   Amphidynamic Crystals: Structureal Blueprints for Molecular Machines Topics Curr. Chem., 2006; 262: 179-228.
Choe, T.; Saeed I. Khan, S.I.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.   Combination Vs Disproportionation in Dialkyl Biradicals. Selectivity Reversal in a Crystalline Solid Photochem.& Photobiol. Sc., 2006; 5: 449-451.
Nunez, J. E.; Khuong, T.-A.V.; Farfan, N.; Dang, H.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.   Crystal Phases and Phase Transitions in a Highly Polymorphogenic Molecular Gyroscope with meta-Methoxytrityl Frames Cryst. Growth & Design, 2006; 5: 866-873.
Khuong, T.-A. V.; Nunez, J. E.; Godinez, C. E.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.   Crystalline Molecular Machines: A Quest Towards Solid State Dynamics and Function Acc. Chem. Res., 2006; 39: 413-422.
Karlen, S.D.; Godinez, C. E.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.   Improved Physical Properties and Rotational Dynamics in a Molecular Gyroscope with an Asymmetric Stator Structure Organic Letters, 2006; 8: 3417 - 3420.
Radhakrishnan, C.; Lo, M.K.F.; Warrier, M.V.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.   Photocatalytic Reduction of Azide Self-Assembled Monolayer using CdS Quantum Dots Langmuir , 2006; 22: 5018-5024.
Horansky, R. D.; Clarke, L. I.; Price, J. C.; Khuong, T.-A.V.; Jarowski, P D.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.   "Dielectric Response of a Dipolar Molecular Rotor Crystal", Phys. Rev. B., 2005; 72: 014302.
Cizmeciyan, D. Yonutas, H. Karlen, S. D. Garcia-Garibay, M. A.   H-2 NMR and X-ray diffraction studies of methyl rotation in crystals of ortho-methyldibenzocycloalkanones Solid State Nucl Magn Reson, 2005; 28: 1-8.
Garcia-Garibay, M. A.   Crystalline molecular machines: encoding supramolecular dynamics into molecular structure Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2005; 102: 10771-10776.
Campos, LM Warrier, MV Peterfy, K Houk, KN Garcia-Garibay, MA   Secondary alpha isotope effects on deuterium tunneling in triplet o-methylanthrones: extraordinary sensitivity to barrier width. J Am Chem Soc , 2005; 127: 10178-9.
Karlen, S. D. Ortiz, R. Chapman, O. L. Garcia-Garibay, M. A.   Effects of rotational symmetry order on the solid state dynamics of phenylene and diamantane rotators J Am Chem Soc, 2005; 127: 6554-5.
Warrier, M Lo, MK Monbouquette, H Garcia-Garibay, MA   Photocatalytic reduction of aromatic azides to amines using CdS and CdSe nanoparticles Photochem. & Photobiol. Sc, 2004; 3: 859-63.
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