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“Unusual Radical Reaction Powered by Strained Substrates”, Chemistry World, 2025.
“Molecules of the Year 2024”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2024.
“Chemists Create 'Impossible' Bond in Molecule, Defying 100-Year-Old Rule”, Yahoo! News, 2024.
“Chemists Break Rule and Overturn 'One Hundred Years of Conventional Wisdom”, Newsweek, 2024.
“Synthetic Strategies Overcome Bredt’s Rule, Unlocking Complex Bridgehead Alkenes”, Chemistry World, 2024.
“Bending the Rules for Twisted Double Bonds”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2024.
“UCLA Chemists Just Broke a 100-Year-Old Rule and Say it’s Time to Rewrite the Textbooks”, UCLA Newsroom, 2024.
“Neil Garg receives David E. Evans Award from American Chemical Society”, UCLA Newsroom, 2024.
“UCLA chemists receive 2024 Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prizes”, UCLA Newsroom, 2024.
“Waiting for CBD regulations in the US”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2023.
“Consumers Who Buy Cannabis Products Containing HHCs Could Be Getting Less Than They Hoped For”, UCLA Newsroom, 2023.
“$9.5 Million in State Grants to Fund Wide-Ranging Research on Cannabis”, UCLA Newsroom, 2023.
“Benzene’s Forgotten Isomer Takes Centre Stage in Organic Synthesis”, Chemistry World, 2023.
“Total Synthesis of Lissodendoric Acid A Comes via Highly Reactive Cyclic Allenes”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2023.
“UCLA Chemists are First to Synthesize Ocean-based Molecule that Could Fight Parkinson’s”, UCLA Newsroom, 2023.
“Scientists Say a Marijuana Breathalyzer is in the Works”, NBC News, 2022.
“Driving High? Chemists Make Strides toward a Marijuana Breath Analyzer”, UCLA Newsroom, 2022.
“Snagging the Power of Cyclic Allene Intermediates”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2020.
“UCLA Chemists Develop the Chemistry to Create an Electronic Marijuana Breathalyzer”, UCLA Newsroom, 2020.
“Azacyclic Allenes Harnessed”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2018.
“Modeling Reduces Nickel Needed in Catalytic Reactions”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2017.
“John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2016 Fellows”, NY Times Newspaper Announcement, 2016.
“Top Research of 2015: Nickel Shines as a Catalyst”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2015.
“Amides Succumb to Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling, Thanks to Nickel Catalyst”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2015.
“Chemists Find A Simple Approach to Activating Amide C–N Bonds”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2015.
"Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards", Chemical and Engineering News, 2015.
“Piperidynes Take a New Number”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2015.
“Chemists Spruce Up Nickel Aminations”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2014.
“Simple Method for Aryl Methyl Ketones”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2014.
“Pyridynes Provide Access to Drug-Like Compounds”, UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2013.
“UCLA Ranks Second in Nation in Number of 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Fellows”, UCLA Newsroom, 2012.
“Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships 2012”, NY Times Newspaper Announcement, 2012.
“Changeup Yields Indole Alkaloid”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2011.
“Professor Wins 2011 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award”, UCLA Newsroom, 2011.
“What Does the Eli Lilly Grant Provide to Academic Researchers”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2011.
“Chemistry Professor Receives Young Faculty Awards”, UCLA Newsroom, 2010.
“The Next Generation of Scientific Leadership”, Chemical and Engineering News, 2009.