个人简介

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's 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 and as chair since July 2012. 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 at 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.

研究领域

organic/Materials/Nanoscience/Analytical/Synthesis

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.

近期论文

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Rotation of a Bulky Triptycene in the Solid State: Towards Engineered Nanoscale Artificial Molecular Machines Jiang, X.; Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Nazarian, N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. J.Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136,8871–8874. Engineered Photochromism in Crystalline Salicylidene Anilines by Facilitating Rotation to Reach the Colored trans-Keto Form.Cryst. Staehle I.O.; Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Khan, S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. Growth Des., 2014, 14, 3667–3673. A Fullerene–Carbene Adduct as a Crystalline Molecular Rotor: Remarkable Behavior of a Spherically-Shaped Rotator. Lorbach, A.; Maverick, E.; Carreras, A.; Alemany, Pere; Wu, Gang, Garcia-Garibay M.A; Bazan, G.C. Phys.Chem. Chem. Phys.,2014,16,12980-12986. Quantum Chain Reaction of Tethered Diarylcyclopropenones in the Solid State and Their Distance-Dependence in Solution Reveal a Dexter S2-S2 Energy Transfer Mechanism Nielsen, A.; Kuzmanich, G.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. J.Phys. Chem. A, 2014,118,1858–1863. One-Pot Synthesis of Nuevamine Aza Analogues by Combined Use of an Oxidative Ugi Type Reaction and Aza-Diels-Alder Cycloaddition. Islas-Jácome, A.; Gutiérrez-Carrillo, A.; García-Garibay, M. A.; González-Zamora, E. Synlett, 2014, 25,403-406. Photochromic Molecular Gyroscope with Solid State Rotational States Determined by an Azobenzene Bridge. Commins, P.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. J.Org. Chem.,2014, 79, 1611–1619. Synthesis and Solid-State Characterization of Self-Assembled Macrocyclic Molecular Rotors of Bis(dithiocarbamate) Ligands with Diorganotin(IV). Torres-Huerta, A.; Rodríguez-Molina, B.; Höpfl, H.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. Organometallics, 2014, 33, 354–362.