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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to subfields such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their work covers a range of main topics including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, crystallography and molecular interactions, supramolecular chemistry and complexes, radical photochemical reactions, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, and metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications.

Garcia-Garibay has published extensively, with research appearing frequently in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemical Science, and Nature Chemistry. The Cambridge Structural Database holds the highest number of their publications, with 53 contributions, followed by 13 papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Recent publications include:

  • "Kinetic Control in the Synthesis of a Möbius Tris((ethynyl)[5]helicene) Macrocycle Using Alkyne Metathesis" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Correlated motion and mechanical gearing in amphidynamic crystalline molecular machines" (2020, Chemical Science)
  • "Dipolar order in an amphidynamic crystalline metal-organic framework through reorienting linkers" (2021, Nature Chemistry)
  • "Taming Radical Pairs in the Crystalline Solid State: Discovery and Total Synthesis of Psychotriadine" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "2D Arrays of Organic Qubit Candidates Embedded into a Pillared-Paddlewheel Metal-Organic Framework" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts include Marcus J. Jellen, Jordan J. Dotson, K. N. Houk, Neil K. Garg, and Ieva Liepuoniute.

Garcia-Garibay's scientific contributions have been recognized through fellowships such as the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2007 and the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Steps To Demarcate the Effects of Chromophore Aggregation and Planarization in Poly(phenyleneethynylene)s. 1. Rotationally Interrupted Conjugation in the Excited States of 1,4-Bis(phenylethynyl)benzene

    Marcia Levitus;Kelli Schmieder;Holly Ricks;Ken D. Shimizu

  • Crystalline molecular machines: function, phase order, dimensionality, and composition

    Cortnie S. Vogelsberg;Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

  • Crystalline Molecular Machines: A Quest Toward Solid-State Dynamics and Function

    Tinh Alfredo V Khuong;Jose E. Nunez;Carlos E. Godinez;Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

  • Crystalline molecular machines: Encoding supramolecular dynamics into molecular structure

    Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

  • Amphidynamic Character of Crystalline MOF-5: Rotational Dynamics of Terephthalate Phenylenes in a Free-Volume, Sterically Unhindered Environment

    Stephanie L Gould;David Tranchemontagne;Omar M Yaghi;Miguel A Garcia-Garibay

  • Consolvency of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in mixed water-methanol solutions: a look at spin-labeled polymers

    Francoise M. Winnik;M. Francesca Ottaviani;Stefan H. Bossmann;M. Garcia-Garibay

  • Molecular Crystals on the Move: From Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Photoreactions to Molecular Machinery

    Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

  • NMR and X-ray Study Revealing the Rigidity of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks

    William Morris;Caitlin J. Stevens;Caitlin J. Stevens;R. E. Taylor;C. Dybowski

  • Molecular Compasses and Gyroscopes. II. Synthesis and Characterization of Molecular Rotors with Axially Substituted Bis[2-(9-triptycyl)ethynyl]arenes

    Carlos E. Godinez;Gerardo Zepeda;Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

  • Naphthalene Diimide Based Materials with Adjustable Redox Potentials: Evaluation for Organic Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Geeta S. Vadehra;Ryan P. Maloney;Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay;Bruce Dunn

  • Molecular “Compasses” and “Gyroscopes.” III. Dynamics of a Phenylene Rotor and Clathrated Benzene in a Slipping-Gear Crystal Lattice

    Zaira Dominguez;Hung Dang;M. Jane Strouse;Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

  • Molecular compasses and gyroscopes with polar rotors: synthesis and characterization of crystalline forms.

    Zaira Dominguez;Tinh A V Khuong;Hung Dang;Carlos N. Sanrame

  • Molecular "compasses" and "gyroscopes". I. Expedient synthesis and solid state dynamics of an open rotor with a bis(triarylmethyl) frame.

    Zaira Dominguez;Hung Dang;M. Jane Strouse;Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

  • Engineering carbene rearrangements in crystals: from molecular information to solid-state reactivity.

    Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

  • Unusual Luminescence of Hexapyrrolidine Derivatives of C60 with Th and Novel D3-Symmetry

    Georg Schick;Marcia Levitus;Lance Kvetko;Brent A. Johnson

  • Quantitative determination of singlet oxygen generated by excited state aromatic amino acids, proteins, and immunoglobulins.

    Khin K. Chin;Colleen C. Trevithick-Sutton;Jeremy McCallum;Steffen Jockusch

  • Diastereospecific Photochemical Dimerization of a Stilbene-Containing Daisy Chain Monomer in Solution as well as in the Solid State†

    Dafni G. Amirsakis;Arkadij M. Elizarov;Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay;Peter T. Glink

  • Ultra-fast rotors for molecular machines and functional materials via halogen bonding: crystals of 1,4-bis(iodoethynyl)bicyclo[2.2.2]octane with distinct gigahertz rotation at two sites.

    Cyprien Lemouchi;Cortnie S. Vogelsberg;Leokadiya Zorina;Leokadiya Zorina;Sergey Simonov;Sergey Simonov

  • Use of chiral single crystals to convert achiral reactants to chiral products in high optical yield: application to the di-.pi.-methane and Norrish type II photorearrangements

    Stephen V. Evans;Miguel. Garcia-Garibay;Nalamasu. Omkaram;John R. Scheffer

  • Polarized Electronic Spectroscopy and Photophysical Properties of 9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene

    Marcia Levitus;Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

Frequent Co-Authors

Saeed I. Khan
Saeed I. Khan University of California, Los Angeles
James Trotter
James Trotter University of British Columbia
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Luis M. Campos
Luis M. Campos Columbia University
Nicholas J. Turro
Nicholas J. Turro Columbia University
M. Francesca Ottaviani
M. Francesca Ottaviani University of Urbino
Dirk M. Guldi
Dirk M. Guldi University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Christopher S. Foote
Christopher S. Foote University of California, Los Angeles
Pierangelo Metrangolo
Pierangelo Metrangolo Polytechnic University of Milan
Françoise M. Winnik
Françoise M. Winnik University of Helsinki

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