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Neil Garg, Ph.D.

Website:

Neil Garg's Home Page.

Work Email Address:

garg@chem.ucla.edu

Laboratory Address:

Mol Sci Bldg 5234
Mol Sci Bldg 5235

Work Address:

Mol Sci Bldg 5505C

Lab Number:

1 (310) 794-9264
1 (310) 825-0541

Work Phone Number:

1 (310) 825-1536
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry

A Short Biography:

Professor Garg received his B.S. degree in 2000 from New York University, and his PhD in 2005 from the California Institute of Technology. After training as an NIH postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Irvine, he joined the faculty at UCLA in 2007.

Awards and Honors:

NIH Pathway to Independence Award ; NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship ; Herbert Newby McCoy Thesis Award ; Dow Chemical Travel Fellowship ; National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Research Interest:

Garg's research program 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.


Detailed Biography:

Professor Garg received a B.S. in Chemistry from New York University where he did undergraduate research with Professor Marc Walters. During his undergraduate years, he spent several months in Strasbourg, France while conducting research with Professor Mir Wais Hosseini at Université Louis Pasteur as an NSF REU Fellow. Garg obtained his PhD in 2005 from the California Institute of Technology under the direction of Professor Brian Stoltz. He then joined Professor Larry Overman's research laboratory at the University of California, Irvine as an NIH Postdoctoral Scholar. In 2007, Garg joined the faculty at UCLA.

Publications:

Boal, Ben W., Alex W. Schammel, Neil K. Garg   An Interrupted Fischer Indolization Approach Toward Fused Indoline-Containing Natural Products Org. Lett., 2009; .
Tian, Xia, Alexander D. Huters, Colin J. Douglas, Neil K. Garg.   Concise Synthesis of the Bicyclic Scaffold of N-Methylwelwitindolinone C Isothiocyanate via an Indolyne Cyclization Org. Lett., 2009; 11: 2349-2351.
Bronner, Sarah M., Kevin B. Bahnck and Neil K. Garg   Indolynes as Electrophilic Indole Surrogates: Fundamental Reactivity and Synthetic Applications Org. Lett., 2009; 11: 1007-1010.
Quasdorf, Kyle Q., Xia Tian, and Neil K. Garg   Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl Pivalates with Boronic Acids J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008; 130: 14422-14423.
Becker, Michael H., Peter Chua, Robert Downham, Christopher J. Douglas, Neil K. Garg, Sheldon Hiebert, Stephan Jaroch, Richard T. Matsuoka, Joy A. Middleton, Fay W. Ng, and Larry E. Overman   Total Synthesis of (–)-Sarain A J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007; 129: 11987.
Neil K. Garg and Brian M. Stoltz.   A Unified Synthetic Approach to the Pyrazinone Dragmacidins Chem. Commun, 2006; 3769. Feature Article.
Christopher J. Lacenere, Neil K. Garg, Brian M. Stoltz, and Stephen R. Quake.   Effects of a Modified Dye-Labeled Nucleotide Spacer Arm on Incorporation by Thermophilic DNA Polymerases Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids, 2006; 25: 9.
Neil K. Garg, Daniel D. Caspi, and Brian M. Stoltz.   The Utility of the Classical and Oxidative Heck Reactions in Natural Product Synthesis: Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Dragmacidin F Synlett , 2006; 3081 special issue.
Neil K. Garg, Sheldon Hiebert, and Larry E. Overman   Total Synthesis of (–)-Sarain A Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006; 45: 2912.
Neil K. Garg, Carolyn C. Woodroofe, Christopher J. Lacenere, Stephen R. Quake, and Brian M. Stoltz   A Ligand-Free Solid-Supported System for Sonogashira Couplings: Applications in Nucleoside Chemistry Chem. Commun, 2005; 4551.
Neil K. Garg, Christopher J. Lacenere, Brian M. Stoltz, Stephen R. Quake, and Philip R. Buzby.   Fluorescently Labeled Nucleoside Triphosphates and Analogs for Multiplex Sequencing of Nucleic Acids, US Patent, 2005; 2005170367.
Daniel D. Caspi, Neil K. Garg, and Brian M. Stoltz.   Heterogeneous Reductive Isomerization Reaction using Catalytic Pd/C and H2 Org. Lett, 2005; 7: 2513.
Neil K. Garg and Brian M. Stoltz.   Synthesis of Bis(indole)-1,2,4-Triazinones Tetrahedron Lett., 2005; 46: 1997.
Neil K. Garg and Brian M. Stoltz.   The Formal Total Synthesis of Dragmacidin B, trans-Dragmacidin C, and cis- and trans-Dihydrohamacanthins A Tetrahedron Lett. , 2005; 46: 2423.
Neil K. Garg, Ph.D. Thesis   The Total Synthesis of Dragmacidins D and F California Institute of Technology, 2005; .
Neil K. Garg, Daniel D. Caspi, and Brian M. Stoltz   The Total Synthesis of (+)-Dragmacidin F J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004; 126: 9552.
Neil K. Garg, Richmond Sarpong, and Brian M. Stoltz.   The First Total Synthesis of Dragmacidin D J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2002; 124: 13179.
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