Sarpong Group@SarpongGroup

Student-run twitter account for the Sarpong group at UC-Berkeley.

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Joined June 2018
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It's official! Welcome to our new first years, Sunny, Mitch, and Ben!
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Congratulations to Ryan and Julius on the publication of their conversion of isoindolines to indenes in Chemical Science! doi.org/10.1039/D6SC03487J

Formal nitrogen-to-carbon replacement in isoindolines to form indenes via N-alkyl tetrahydroisoqu...

Herein, we report a Stevens rearrangement ring expansion of isoindolines to N-alkyl-2-aroyl-tetrahydroisoquinolines, followed by a photochemical nitrogen a

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Richmond has won the RSC's Pedler Prize for 2026! You can read more about it here: rsc.org/standards-and-recogn…

Professor Richmond Sarpong

For the development of creative strategies for the synthesis of complex molecules and new methods for chemical synthesis based on the concept of single-atom skeletal editing.

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Congratulations to @isabel_dltr and our collaborators from the @MingjiDai Group at Emory University on the Perspective Article on Single-Atom Skeletal Editing in JACS! pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021…
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Congrats Richmond and Felix! @SarpongGroup
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Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members were recently elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (@AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/26…
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Tune in this week as Dr. Charis Amber @SarpongGroup @ListLaboratory shares his work on the development of an "inside-out" strategy for the synthesis of hispidospermidin! Link: youtu.be/Rtjb79JtvIE @JACS_Au 2026, 6, 600–606. doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.5c015…
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Richmond has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science! He is grateful to all the coworkers, mentors and supporters that have made this possible! news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/26… aaas.org/page/2025-fellows

Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement...

The newly elected AAAS Fellows include a tech pioneer, the author of a book on nature’s poisons and a neuroscientist who can decode what you are seeing from your brain wave activity.

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College of Chemistry@UCB_Chemistry
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Felix Raoul Fischer and Richmond Sarpong from the College of Chemistry are among eleven UC Berkeley faculty members that have been elected 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). @SarpongGroup bit.ly/41uyY96
Two people are featured on a poster with the text "Felix Fischer and Richmond Sarpong, elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science." Both are smiling professionally. The background includes a blue wave design, and the bottom text reads "UC Berkeley College of Chemistry.

ALT Two people are featured on a poster with the text "Felix Fischer and Richmond Sarpong, elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science." Both are smiling professionally. The background includes a blue wave design, and the bottom text reads "UC Berkeley College of Chemistry.
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Several Sarpong Group members are featured in a story on College of Chemistry community members with ties to Africa! chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/…
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Congratulations to Charis, @tentan33 and Matt, and our collaborator on structural elucidation, Dr. Settineri, on the publication of our total synthesis of hispidospermidin in JACSAu! @ACSPublications pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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Scott Bagley@BagPhos
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My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers 12b: I’m so excited how this one turned out with the @SarpongGroup led by @philipp_spie. A one-pot fusion of 2 heterocycles - a whole new way in to key pharmacohores @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Annulative Skeletal Diversification of Pyrimidines to Expanded Heteroaromatic Space

Abstract. Single-atom skeletal editing has recently emerged as a powerful strategy for the direct diversification of the heterocyclic cores of various comp

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Congratulations to Hiroki on his beautiful syntheses of bis cyclotryptamine alkaloids, now out in @J_A_C_S! We are grateful to Dr. David Small for his collaboration on the computational aspects! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c15181
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Congratulations to team "Skeletal Annulation" (@philipp_spie, Atang, Antonia, @SamLKraus, Nicolo, and Takashi) and our collaborators at @pfizer led by @BagPhos on the publication of our work in JACS! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c14511
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Philipp Spieß@philipp_spie
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Thrilled to share my first work in the @SarpongGroup in an incredible collaboration with @pfizer, led by @BagPhos. Make sure to check this out if you want to learn about an "annulative edit". pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Annulative Skeletal Diversification of Pyrimidines to Expanded Heteroaromatic Space

Abstract. Single-atom skeletal editing has recently emerged as a powerful strategy for the direct diversification of the heterocyclic cores of various comp

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Annulative Skeletal Diversification of Pyrimidines to Expanded Heteroaromatic Space | Journal of the American Chemical Society @UCBerkeley @UCB_Chemistry @SarpongGroup pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Annulative Skeletal Diversification of Pyrimidines to Expanded Heteroaromatic Space

Abstract. Single-atom skeletal editing has recently emerged as a powerful strategy for the direct diversification of the heterocyclic cores of various comp

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Excited to welcome first years Richard, David P., Nick, and David B. to the group!
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Congratulations to Taku and Pierre on the publication of their dahurelmusin synthesis! Thank you to Dr. Blane Zavesky, our collaborator from @CortevaUS for going above and beyond! doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.…
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Check out this highlight on our carbamorphine work!
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13 Aug 2025
Carbamorphine: Could This Fascinating Molecule Become The Holy Grail of Pain Relief? It's still very early, but team led by #DrRichmondSarpong @SarpongGroup has discovered Carbamorphine — a close analog of morphine that may deliver powerful pain relief without the concerning side effects potentially making it one of the most important medical discoveries ever @JoshBloomACSH tinyurl.com/nhjrwpab
Carbamorphine could this fascinating molecule become the Holy Grail of pain relief?@

ALT Carbamorphine could this fascinating molecule become the Holy Grail of pain relief?@

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Breaking news for pain relief! Researchers led by Professor of Chemistry Richmond Sarpong have created a new version of morphine, called carbamorphine, by swapping just one atom: oxygen for carbon.
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13 Jul 2025
By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory depression in mice cen.acs.org/synthesis/medici…
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By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory depression in mice cen.acs.org/synthesis/medici…

Atom-swapped morphine may help create safer painkillers

By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory depression in mice

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