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






News
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