The Houk Group solves problems in organic and bio-organic chemistry using theoretical and computational methods and programs. Theoretical predictions and designs of new reactions, reagents, and catalysts are tested experimentally in the Houk lab or with collaborators.

Professor Houk is an authority on theoretical and computational organic chemistry. His group is involved in developments of rules to understand reactivity, computer modeling of complex organic reactions, and experimental tests of the predictions of theory.

The Houk group solves problems in organic and bio-organic chemistry using theoretical and computational methods and programs. Some of the group members are also involved in experimental research to test theoretical predictions and to develop new reactions, reagents, and catalysts which have been designed from theoretical investigations.

Houk: "Perspective on 'Theoretical Interpretation of 1-2 Asymmetric Induction. The Importance of Antiperiplanarity' by N. T. Anh and O. Eisenstein, Nouv. J. Chim., 1, 61-70 (1977)," Theor.

Professor Houk is an authority on theoretical and computational organic chemistry. His group develops rules to understand reactivity, computationally models complex organic reactions, and experimentally tests the predictions of theory.

The Houk Group Home Page Welcome to the Home Page of the Houk Group in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. Houk Group, April 2005. The Houk Group conducts research in the following areas: UNDERSTANDING AND DESIGN OF STEREOSELECTIVE ORGANIC REACTIONS AND CATALYSTS; PERICYCLIC REACTION MECHANISMS, …

Contact Houk | Contact Web Master: University of California, Los Angeles Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 607 Charles E. Young Drive East Box 951569 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569 Phone: (310) 206-0515 Fax: (310) 206-1843 Kendall N. Houk Send questions, comments, and suggestions to Professor Houk's assistant:

Kendall N. Houk Date of birth: February 27, 1943 Position: Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/houk Education: 1964 AB, Harvard College 1968 PhD with R. B. Woodward, Harvard University

At the American Chemical Society National Meeting in August 2021: Professor Houk accepts the 2021 ACS Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry. Summer Researchers, August 2017: Professor Al Courey and summer researcher in Professor Houk's labs, Norman Harris II. Norman Harris II discusses his poster.

The meeting honored Ken Houk for his contributions to the field of mechanistic organic chemistry. Current and past Houk group members spoke and attended, along with an international group of speakers and attendees.