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SUMMARY:National Chemistry Week Celebration 2026
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Silicon Valley ACS and San Jose Public Library\n11:00 am-2:00 pm for kids ages 5-12\nIn person at the Martin Luther King Library\, Children’s Room\, 1st Floor\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA 95112\,\nFree. No registration required.\n\nA FREE\, interactive experience for kids of all ages and their families featuring hands-on chemistry activities for kids\, a free print copy of “Celebrating Chemistry” the ACS publication for kids\, and prizes for every child who participates. \n  \nRead Celebrating Chemistry – Chemistry Under Construction online.  Available in English and in Spanish. \n \n\n 
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/national-chemistry-week-celebration-2026/
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SUMMARY:Strategies and Methods for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Richmond Sarpong\, University of California\, Berkeley\nSponsored by Stanford Department of Chemistry\n3:00-4:00 pm\, in-person\, Stanford University\, Sapp Center Auditorium (STLC 111)\, 376 Lomita Drive\, Learn more\n\nNatural products continue to inspire and serve as a basis of new medicines. They also provide intricate problems that expose limitations in the strategies and methods employed in chemical synthesis. Several strategies and methods that have been developed in our laboratory and applied to the syntheses of architecturally complex natural products will be discussed. In particular\, new ways to employ the cleavage of core bonds such as C–C and C–N bonds to achieve skeletal editing will be presented. \nAbout the Speaker\nRichmond Sarpong is the Maxine J. Elliott University Professor of Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley where he and his group specialize in synthetic organic chemistry. Richmond became interested in chemistry after seeing\, firsthand\, the effectiveness of the drug ivermectin in combating river blindness during his childhood in Ghana\, West Africa. Richmond described his influences and inspirations in a TEDxBerkeley talk in 2015 (Face of Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsY87-zkXA). Richmond completed his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul\, MN and his graduate work was carried out with Prof. Martin Semmelhack at Princeton. He conducted postdoctoral studies at Caltech with Prof. Brian Stoltz. At Berkeley (since 2004)\, Richmond’s laboratory focuses on strategies and methods (including skeletal editing) for the synthesis of biologically active complex organic molecules that could form the basis for new pharmaceuticals. \nHe enjoys teaching and was the recipient of the 2009\, 2024\, and 2025 UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry teaching awards\, the 2016 Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Physical Sciences at Berkeley\, and the 2021 ACS-DOC Edward Leete Award for teaching and research. Richmond’s research group has published over 180 papers and he has received numerous awards in recognition of his research including an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship\, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship\, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award\, ACS Cope Scholar Award\, NSF Career Award\, the 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award\, a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship\, the ISHC Katritzky Award\, the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan Mukaiyama Award for 2019\, the and the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry for 2022. He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020) and the US National Academy of Science (2025).
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SUMMARY:Silicon Valley ACS Executive Committee Meeting
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