The Sarpong Group
8th Floor Latimer Hall
University of California, Berkeley






News
1/16/2012: Congratulations to Gary on the completion of his studies of Rh-catalyzed 1,2-additions, which will appear in the journal Chemical Science!

1/03/2012: Rebecca's studies toward the magellanine-type alkaloids and Erica and Brian's studies on lapidilectine-type alkaloids have been published. Congratulations all!

11/09/2011: Alison's full article on indolizinones has been published in OBC! Congrats Ali!

10/07/2011: The Sarpong groups welcomes our new graduate students, Chris, Eddie, and Jason!

10/06/2011: Congratulations to Steve on the publication of his full paper on esterification and amidation reagents in Tetrahedron!

8/16/2011: We welcome our new postdoc, Ethan and our new undergraduate student, Kyle!

7/29/2011: The Sarpong group welcomes summer graduate students Justin and Jason!

6/15/2011: The Sarpong group welcomes undergraduate students Danial and TingTing; visiting scholars Erica, Nishitha and Tara; and summer graduate students Christopher and Jake!

6/2/2011: Laura has published a tutorial review in Chem. Soc Rev about divergent reactions on racemic mixtures. Congratulations!

4/18/2011: The Sarpong group welcomes our new postdoc, Andre (a.k.a. Dr. Dre)!

4/6/2011: Congratulations to Josh and Sid for receiving the NSF graduate fellowship. Way to go!

4/1/2011: We wish our postdoc, Daniel Fischer, all the best at Lonza!

1/26/2011: Welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Pablo Garcia-Reynaga, to the group!

10/14/2010: Bunnelle has been busy even after graduating! His collaboration with the Casida group has been published in PNAS.!

9/20/2010: Steve has developed several reagents for esterification and amidation. A publication of this work will appear in Org. Lett.! Congratulations!!

9/15/2010: Andrew's synthesis of the tetrapetalone core has been published in Org. Lett.! Way to go!

9/2/2010: Our collaboration with the Collum group at Cornell has yielded insight into the nature of C-Li/N-Li dianions. This work will appear in JACS! Congratulations Scott!

8/3/2010: Congratulations to Laura and Stephen on the publication of their collaboration paper with the Davies group at Emory in JACS!

8/3/2010: Richmond's News and Views letter on the syntheses of cortistatin A and congeners by Andy Myers and coworkers has been published in Nature Chemistry!

7/23/2010: Welcome to our new postdoc Terry Lebold, and our visiting summer students, Sidney Hill, Raul Leal, Jim Newton, and Christopher Marth!

7/16/2010: Congratulations to Alison on the publication of the metal-free synthesis of indolizines, which will be appearing in the journal Green Chemistry!

5/22/2010: The review on the cortistatins by Ali and Simmons is online at Eur. JOC. Congratulations on a job well done Ali and Simmons!

5/5/2010: Congratulations to Vishnumaya on the completion of the total synthesis of lycoposerramine R, which was published in Org. Lett.!

4/26/2010: Daniel's synthesis of complanadine A has been highlighted in C&Eng News!

4/9/2010: Congratulations to Daniel for the publication of his synthesis of Complanadine A in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

4/9/2010: Congratulations to Erica, Steve, and Sarah for receiving an Outstanding GSI award!

4/9/2010: Congratulations to Erica for receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award!

3/2/2010: Congratulations to Simmons and Ali for the publication of their formal total synthesis of (±)-Cortistatin A in Tetrahedron!

2/23/2010: Congratulations to Jesse for the publication of his formal total synthesis of icetexone and epi-icetexone in Organic Letters!

2/6/2010: Congratulations to Richmond for being one of two winners of the 2010 Roche Excellence in Organic Chemistry Award!

2/6/2010: Congratulations to Bunnelle on the publication of his collaborative work with the Casida group on S-Arachidonoyl-2-thioglycerol synthesis in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry!

11/12/2009: Congratulations to Jenna on the publication of her synthesis of Pauciflorol F in Organic Letters!

9/02/2009: Congratulations to Kimberly on the completion of the total synthesis of Galbulimima alkaloid 13 and her paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

7/15/2009: Welcome to our new postdoc Stephen Born, and all of our summer students: Brandon Rosen, Jeffrey Buenaflor, Erica Schultz, Jessica Kisunzu, Saeed Alzghari, and Ty Volkoff!

7/2/2009: Congrats to Jesse for being awarded a Ruth L Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship Award by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences!

6/16/2009: Congratulations to Scott, Alakesh, Andy, and Raja for their upcoming full paper on the lyconadins in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

6/16/2009: Congratulations also to Simmons for his upcoming paper on the icetexane natural products appearing soon in Natural Products Report!

6/16/2009: Congratulations to Jess for her paper on the synthesis of the tetracyclic core of the neomangicols published in Organic Letters!

5/21/2009: Congratulations to Jenna for receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

4/29/2009: Richmond has been named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awardee for 2009!

4/29/2009: Congratulations again to Julius who has been awarded a College of Chemistry summer research award!

4/23/2009: Congratulations to Julius for receiving a travel award to attend the National Organic Symposium.

4/21/2009: Congratulations to Laura for being awarded a travel grant by the ACS Women Chemists Committee/Eli Lilly!

4/6/2009: Check out photos and videos of Sarpong group members giving chemistry demonstrations to Westlake Middle School students here!

3/24/2009: Congratulations to Alison on being sponsored to attend the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany!

3/19/2009: Check out the new Sarpong group lab coats at our photos page, or by clicking here!.

2/18/2009: Congratulations to Jenna on the publication of her Pd-catalyzed domino Heck approach to dimeric resveratrol natural products in Tetrahedron Letters.

2/18/2009: Richmond has been selected as a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. For a link listing the 118 recipients of this award for 2009, click here.

1/19/2009: Congratulations to Laura and Maina on the acceptance of their paper on a parallel kinetic resolution approach to the cyathanes. This work is supported by our American Cancer Society Grant and is in press in Angewandte Chemie.

10/27/2008: Graduate student Jenna Jeffrey officially joined the group!

6/30/2008: Welcome to incoming first year graduate students Jenna Jeffrey and Tyler Baguley who are working in our laboratory this summer

6/30/2008: Congratulations to Simmons, Ali and Shirley on their upcoming paper on cortistatin A in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.

6/30/2008: Congratulations to Andrew and Amy on their upcoming paper on aryl dienone Nazarov reactions in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.

6/10/2008: Our synthesis of lyconadin A has been highlighted in Science and Chemical and Engineering News!

5/31/2008: Richmond has been recongnized with a Hellman Faculty Fund award for 2008.

5/14/2008: Congratulations to Scott and Alakesh, for their paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

5/07/2008: Congratulations to Laura, for receiving the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor for Spring 2007

5/01/2008: Richmond has been awarded an AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award for 2008

4/20/2008: Richmond has recently been recognized with the following awards:
  • Amgen Young Investigator Award (2008)
  • Abbott Young Faculty Award (2008-2009)
  • GlaxoSmithKline Scholar Award (2008-2009)
  • Dupont Young Professor Award (2008)
  • Johnson and Johnson Focused Giving Award (2008-2009)

03/20/2008: Check out our recent paper in Tetrahedron

12/13/2007: Congratulations to Bunnelle for getting the Chevron Fellowship in Chemistry

09/11/2007: Congratulations to Alison for her paper in Organic Letters

06/12/2007: Congratulations to Simmons for getting the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Predoctoral Fellowship

06/12/2007: Congratulations to Brian for getting the TRDRP fellowship

06/9/2007: Congratulations to Simmons and Jen on their paper in Organic Letters