Our total synthesis of daphenylline is out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! 🎉 Very excited to share our work in the Sarpong Group with the community on how we navigated the challenges of this target. A brief thread 🧵#TotalSynthesis #chemtwitter pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Check out this article about why Richmond became a chemist and his appreciation for gloveboxes! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Had an amazing time at CalTech the past few days. It was awesome to share the stage with my postdoc advisor, Richmond Sarpong, and such an honor to be invited by Caltech DICI to speak at their first Day of Inclusion.

Attention undergrad students! The deadline for the Summer #UndergraduateResearch Fellowships offered by the NSF Center for Computer-Assisted Synthesis is fast approaching. Apply now to get a chance to perform state-of-the-art research this summer. Deadline: February 1, 2024. #NSF

Congrats to Logan Bartholomew , Samantha Kraus BS and our collaborators at #Merckchemistry and the Sigman Lab on the publication of our work on 14N to 15N exchange in azines in JACS! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Our azine N-isotope exchange is out now in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Excited to share this story with a few twists in the Sarpong Group with the Sigman Lab and Charles Yeung from #MerckChemistry. Big thanks to Samantha Kraus BS, Lucas Karas, and this awesome team. bit.ly/15Nie

Stefan, Goh, Dr. Kristen Gardner, PhD, and visiting scholar Kazu's work in collaboration with the Paton lab on a ring expansion approach to harringtonolide is now online on ChemRXiv! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Sarpong Group is a Ghanaian-American chemistry professor UC Berkeley. Sarpong works on natural product total synthesis to understand biological systems and to develop novel therapeutics. Sarpong and his research group have published over 135 papers! #BlackHistoryMonth

Our investigation into the photomediated ring contraction of saturated heterocycles is out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Excited to finally share my inaugural 1st author, multi-part story that blends synthesis, mechanistic & wavelength-dependent insight, and computations. tinyurl.com/hccapy9d

Congratulations to Assistant Prof. Goh Sennari in the Sunazuka/ Hirose laboratory at the Omura Memorial Institute at Kitasato University (former senior project scientist in our laboratory) and postdoc Dr. Hiroki Yamagishi on their publication in JACS. pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

Remote C–H Amination and Alkylation of Camphor at C8 through Hydrogen-Atom Abstraction | Journal of the American Chemical Society Sarpong Group College of Chemistry UC Berkeley Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights #CHAmination #CHAlkylation #Camphor #HAtomAbstraction pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Congratulations to Jinsu and Christina and our collaborators from the Baik group on the publication of our work on the synthesis of oxepane derivatives using a Rh-catalyzed transformation of squarate derivatives with acrylonitrile. pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

An absolute honor to be an ACS WCC/ Pfizer Inc. Emergent Leader Awardee. I had a great time at the symposium yesterday listening to the other awardees amazing research, and had a fun time presenting. Undergrad me never could have imagine where chemistry & Chancellor's Science Scholars would take me

Congratulations to Stefan, Goh, Dr. Kristen Gardner, PhD, Kazu and our collaborators Dr. Mihai Popescu and Robert Paton on the publication of our approach to harringtonolide and computational insight in Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Congratulations to Paul Sinclair on the publication of his beautiful synthesis of baphicacanthcusine A in Angewandte Chemie that exploits symmetry in an unusual way! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

My total synthesis of baphicacanthcusine A is out now in Angewandte Chemie. It has been a fascinating journey learning about these unique molecules and I’m really proud to tell this story! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Congrats Charis Amber, Lucas, Ryan, and Timothée on their work on the development of the C–C Reductive Amination, now out on ChemRxiv chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Our work in Sarpong Group on remodeling of 2-pyrones to aryl amines under mild conditions is out in Chemical Science. I enjoyed working with Louis in Robert Paton’s lab and Melissa in Sigman Lab to better understand this unexpected transformation! 1/3 pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Check this out from Dr. Kristen Gardner, PhD and Sarpong Group ft. Sigman Lab and Robert Paton - very cool rxn out now in Chemical Science

Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Gardner, PhD, Jin Tan, and our collaborators in Robert Paton's lab and Sigman Lab on the publication of our work on remodeling of 2-pyrones to aryl amines in Chemical Science doi.org/10.1039/D4SC04…