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Kendall Newcomb Houk | |
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| Born | February 27, 1943 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Theory of Chemical Reactivity and Selectivity |
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| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Louisiana State University University of Pittsburgh University of California, Los Angeles |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Burns Woodward |
Kendall Newcomb Houk is a Distinguished Research Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research group studies organic, organometallic, and biological reactions using the tools of computational chemistry. This work involves quantum mechanical calculations, often with density functional theory, and molecular dynamics, either quantum dynamics for small systems or force fields such as AMBER, for solution and protein simulations.