Organic Chemistry Seminar: Professor Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley
S.G. Mudd Building
Stanford University
"Strategies and Methods for Complex Molecule Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products"
About the Seminar:
Natural products continue to provide intricate problems that expose limitations in the strategies and methods employed in the synthesis of complex molecules. Several strategies and methods that have been developed in our laboratory and applied to the syntheses of architecturally complex diterpenoid alkaloids, indole alkaloids, and several Lycopodium alkaloids, will be presented and discussed.
- Marth, C.J.; Gallego, G.M.; Lee, J.C.; Lebold, T.P.; Kulyk, S.; Kou, K.G.M.; Qin, J.; Lilien, R.; Sarpong, R.; Nature 2015, 528, 493.
- Mercado-Marin, E.V.; Garcia-Reynaga, P.; Romminger, S.; Pimenta, E.F.; Romney, D.K.; Lodewyk, M.W.; Williams, D.E.; Andersen, R.J.; Miller, S.J.; Tantillo, D.J.; Berlinck, R.G.S.; Sarpong, R.; Nature 2014, 509, 318.
About the Speaker:
Richmond Sarpong was born in Ghana, West Africa in 1974. He received his B.A. degree from Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) in 1995. During that time he carried out undergraduate research with Professor Rebecca Hoye. He conducted his Ph.D. research with Professor Martin F. Semmelhack at Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, USA) and completed his degree in 2000 working on functional analogs of enediyne antitumor antibiotics. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Brian Stoltz at Caltech (Pasadena, California, USA) where his research entailed total synthesis of the bis-indole alkaloid dragmacidin D and methods based on diazo decomposition. He began his independent career at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and is now Full Professor. His research interests center on the development of new strategies for the synthesis of complex natural products, especially alkaloids.