Virtual Lecture: Break-it-to-Make-it Strategies for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products
Lecture held on: March 24, 2021
Presenter
Prof. Richmond Sarpong β Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Natural products continue to inspire and serve as the basis of new medicines. They also provide intricate problems that expose limitations in the strategies and methods employed in chemical synthesis. In this lecture, Prof. Richmond Sarpong discussed several strategies and methods that have been developed in his laboratory and applied to the syntheses of architecturally complex diterpenoid alkaloids, indole alkaloids, and several Lycopodium alkaloids. In addition, new ways to employ C-C bond cleavage in synthesis are presented (i.e., break-it-to-make-it strategies).