The Department of Chemistry at Columbia University

The Spring 2018 Colloquium Seminar Series

Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, Havemeyer Hall, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA 212-854-2202 www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry

All lectures take place on Thursdays at 4:30pm in room 209 Havemeyer, unless otherwise indicated. Tea and cookies will be served prior to each lecture at 4:00pm in room 328 Havemeyer.

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Strategies and Methods for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Natural Products

Natural products continue to inspire and serve as the basis of new medicines. They also provi-

de intricate problems that expose limitations in the strategies and methods employed in chemi-

cal synthesis. 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 pre-

sented and discussed.

[1] Marth, C.J.; Gallego, G.M.; Lee, J.C.; Lebold, T.P.;

Kulyk, S.; Kou, K.G.M.; Qin, J.; Lilien, R.; Sarpong, R.; Na-

ture 2015, 528, 493.

[2] Mercado-Marin, E.V.; Garcia-Reynaga, P.; Romminger, S.; Pimenta, E.F.; Romney, D.K.; Lodewyk, M.W.; Wi-lliams, D.E.; Andersen, R.J.; Miller, S.J.; Tantillo, D.J.; Berlinck,

R.G.S.; Sarpong, R.; Nature 2014, 509, 318.

Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 4:30pm

Room 209 Havemeyer

Hosted by

The Graduate Students

Presented by

Richmond Sarpong University of California–Berkeley

Tea and

cookies will

be served

prior to the lecture at

4:00pm in the Miller Room

328 Havemeyer