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The Garg Research Group at UCLA
Professor Neil Garg
Professor Neil 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 Ph.D. 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. Garg joined the faculty at UCLA in 2007. In 2012, he was promoted to Associate Professor and began serving as Vice Chair for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. In 2013, he was promoted to Full Professor.
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Paraffin–Ni(cod)2 Capsules for Use in Ni-catalyzed Cross-Couplings on the Benchtop
Advantages
• No Glovebox Handling Required
• General use in Ni(cod)2-mediated reactions
• Long-term air and moisture stability
Prof. Garg’s lab is interested in the development of catalytic methodologies to activate amide C–N bonds for subsequent manipulation. Toward this end, they have developed a number of nickel-catalyzed amide activation reactions to access esters, other amides, and ketones from this traditionally inert functional group.
The general use of these methodologies has been fettered by the requirement of glovebox handling of the synthetically important, air sensitive Ni(cod)2 precatalyst. As a means to eliminate glovebox requirements for use of this chemistry, Garg and Co. developed paraffin–Ni(cod)2 capsules that enable the transformations to be performed entirely on the benchtop. The capsules have been demonstrated to work in the aforementioned amide activation reactions as well as a number of other Ni(cod)2-mediated cross-coupling reactions.
These capsules are expected to broaden the use of nickel catalysis in both academia and industry.
Technical Applications
Molecular Functionalizations using Wax encapsulated Ni(cod)2
Benchtop Delivery of Ni(cod)2 using Paraffin Capsules
Benchtop Delivery of Ni(cod)2 using Paraffin Capsules
J.E Dander, N.A. Weires, N.K. Garg, Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 3934.
B5418 Bis(1,5-cyclooctadiene)nickel(0) - 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolidin-2-ylidene (Wax encapsulated) (ca. 0.05mmol each) *This product is discontinued.