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K. N. Houk
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 544
Citations - 19761
K. N. Houk is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 478 publications receiving 17032 citations. Previous affiliations of K. N. Houk include University of Pittsburgh & Leibniz University of Hanover.
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Photooxidation of n-Octanal in Air: Experimental and Theoretical Study
TL;DR: Carbon balance data lower than unities suggest the existence of unidentified decomposition channel(s) which substantially contributes to the photolysis of n-octanal and predominantly proceeds to form Norrish type II products as the major ones.
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Bacterial Tetrabromopyrrole Debrominase Shares a Reductive Dehalogenation Strategy with Human Thyroid Deiodinase.
Jonathan R. Chekan,Ga Young Lee,Abrahim El Gamal,Trevor N Purdy,K. N. Houk,Bradley S. Moore,Bradley S. Moore +6 more
TL;DR: A catalytic mechanism is proposed for Bmp8 that is reminiscent of that catalyzed by human deiodinases in the maintenance of thyroid hormones, and the identification of the key catalytic residues enabled us to recognize divergent functional homologues of BMP8.
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Amentotaxins C-V, Structurally Diverse Diterpenoids from the Leaves and Twigs of the Vulnerable Conifer Amentotaxus argotaenia and Their Cytotoxic Effects.
Hao Li,Yu-Ru Liang,Shao-Xin Chen,Wen-Xuan Wang,Yike Zou,Selbi Nuryyeva,K. N. Houk,Juan Xiong,Jin-Feng Hu +8 more
TL;DR: A phytochemical investigation of the MeOH extract of the leaves and twigs of Amentotaxus argotaenia, a relict vulnerable coniferous species endemic to China, led to the isolation and characterization of 35 diterpenoids/norditerpenoid compounds, 20 of which are new.
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Origins of Stereoselectivity in Chiral Aminoalcohol Catalysis of Oxyallyl Cation-Indole Reactions
TL;DR: The enantioselective coupling of indoles with racemic α-tosyloxy ketones mediated by a chiral amino alcohol catalyst is studied with density functional theory (DFT) calculations and substitution to enhance the enantiOSElectivity of this reaction is proposed.
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Theory of rates and stereoselctivities and of cycloadditions to 7-substituted norbornadienes.
K. N. Houk,K. N. Houk,Yun-Dong Wu,Yun-Dong Wu,Paul H. Mueller,Paul H. Mueller,Pierluigi Caramella,Michael N. Paddon-Row,Shigeru Nagase,Paul H. Mazzocchi +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the structures of 7-substituted norbomadienes have been studied theoretically with the 3-21G basis set, and the stereoselectivities and rates of electrophilie eycloaddifions of HCCP to these norboms have been rationalized.