Richmond Sarpong

14.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
209 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Richmond Sarpong is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richmond Sarpong has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Organic Chemistry, 56 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Richmond Sarpong's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (62 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (43 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (34 papers). Richmond Sarpong is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (62 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (43 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (34 papers). Richmond Sarpong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. Richmond Sarpong's co-authors include Jenna L. Jeffrey, Erica E. Schultz, John M. Ndungu, Brian M. Stoltz, Jose B. Roque, Jay D. Keasling, James Kirby, Dae‐Kyun Ro, Sydnor T. Withers and Michelle C. Y. Chang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Richmond Sarpong

203 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

Production of the antimal... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2021 2022 2023 2024 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast
    2006 2.0k citations Richmond Sarpong et al. profile →
  2. C–H activation
    2021 433 citations Djamaladdin G. Musaev, Charis Amber et al. profile →
  3. Single-atom logic for heterocycle editing
    2022 356 citations Justin Jurczyk, Sojung F. Kim et al. Nature Synthesis profile →
  4. Skeletal Editing Approach to Bridge-Functionalized Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes from Azabicyclo[2.1.1]hexanes
    2023 111 citations Richmond Sarpong et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. 14 N to 15 N Isotopic Exchange of Nitrogen Heteroaromatics through Skeletal Editing
    2024 65 citations Lucas J. Karas, Raffeal Bennett et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richmond Sarpong United States 54 7.8k 3.7k 1.4k 1.1k 1.1k 209 11.4k
K. C. Nicolaou United States 62 9.8k 1.3× 3.5k 0.9× 2.1k 1.6× 558 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 224 12.6k
Neil K. Garg United States 62 11.5k 1.5× 2.2k 0.6× 782 0.6× 789 0.7× 2.0k 1.9× 205 12.9k
Lutz F. Tietze Germany 49 10.8k 1.4× 4.3k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 375 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 445 13.2k
Andrew G. Myers United States 56 7.8k 1.0× 3.1k 0.8× 1.5k 1.1× 291 0.3× 993 0.9× 191 10.0k
Martin G. Banwell Australia 40 5.9k 0.8× 1.8k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 990 0.9× 397 0.4× 423 7.1k
J. S. Yadav India 58 17.7k 2.3× 4.5k 1.2× 2.0k 1.5× 428 0.4× 1.8k 1.7× 981 19.5k
Steven M. Weinreb United States 52 9.1k 1.2× 3.0k 0.8× 879 0.6× 665 0.6× 983 0.9× 236 10.5k
Hung‐wen Liu United States 53 3.9k 0.5× 6.1k 1.6× 2.7k 2.0× 325 0.3× 1.0k 1.0× 279 9.8k
Keisuke Suzuki Japan 47 7.4k 1.0× 2.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 341 0.3× 484 0.5× 342 8.4k
Vicente Gotor Spain 48 5.5k 0.7× 7.5k 2.0× 364 0.3× 625 0.6× 1.4k 1.3× 427 10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richmond Sarpong

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Göttemann, Lucas, et al.. (2025). C–C Cleavage/Cross-Coupling Approach for the Modular Synthesis of Medium-to-Large Sized Rings: Total Synthesis of Resorcylic Acid Lactone Natural Products. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(11). 9900–9908. 3 indexed citations
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Karas, Lucas J., et al.. (2025). Cheminformatic Analysis of Core-Atom Transformations in Pharmaceutically Relevant Heteroaromatics. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(6). 6027–6040. 9 indexed citations
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Kim, Sojung F., et al.. (2025). Phototransposition of Indazoles to Benzimidazoles: Tautomer‐Dependent Reactivity, Wavelength Dependence, and Continuous Flow Studies. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(31). e202423803–e202423803. 10 indexed citations
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Small, David W., et al.. (2025). Unified Total Synthesis of C 2 -Symmetric Bis(cyclotryptamine) Alkaloids Utilizing a Single-Atom Insertion/Deletion Strategy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(51). 47322–47329.
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Sennari, Goh, et al.. (2024). Late-stage benzenoid-to-troponoid skeletal modification of the cephalotanes exemplified by the total synthesis of harringtonolide. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4125–4125. 15 indexed citations
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Hardy, Melissa A., et al.. (2024). Modular synthesis of aryl amines from 3-alkynyl-2-pyrones. Chemical Science. 15(38). 15632–15638. 4 indexed citations
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Karas, Lucas J., et al.. (2024). 14 N to 15 N Isotopic Exchange of Nitrogen Heteroaromatics through Skeletal Editing. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(5). 2950–2958. 65 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sennari, Goh, et al.. (2024). C–H functionalization of camphor through emerging approaches. Chemistry Letters. 53(11). upae204–upae204.
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Göttemann, Lucas, et al.. (2023). Oxidative cleavage of ketoximes to ketones using photoexcited nitroarenes. Chemical Science. 15(1). 213–219. 14 indexed citations
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Roque, Jose B., Bohyun Park, Stefan E. Payer, et al.. (2023). Photo- and Metal-Mediated Deconstructive Approaches to Cyclic Aliphatic Amine Diversification. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(20). 11245–11257. 34 indexed citations
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Jurczyk, Justin, et al.. (2022). Single-atom logic for heterocycle editing. Nature Synthesis. 1(5). 352–364. 356 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jurczyk, Justin, Michaelyn C. Lux, Donovon A. Adpressa, et al.. (2021). Photomediated ring contraction of saturated heterocycles. Science. 373(6558). 1004–1012. 166 indexed citations
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Amber, Charis, Bohyun Park, Liping Xu, et al.. (2021). Sequential Norrish–Yang Cyclization and C–C Cleavage/Cross-Coupling of a [4.1.0] Fused Saturated Azacycle. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 86(17). 12436–12442. 8 indexed citations
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Palani, Vignesh, Cedric L. Hugelshofer, Ilia Kevlishvili, Peng Liu, & Richmond Sarpong. (2019). A Short Synthesis of Delavatine A Unveils New Insights into Site-Selective Cross-Coupling of 3,5-Dibromo-2-pyrone. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(6). 2652–2660. 25 indexed citations
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Sarpong, Richmond, et al.. (2019). A Case for Bond‐Network Analysis in the Synthesis of Bridged Polycyclic Complex Molecules: Hetidine and Hetisine Diterpenoid Alkaloids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(27). 10722–10731. 29 indexed citations
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Sarpong, Richmond, et al.. (2014). Synthetic strategies toward hetidine and hetisine-type diterpenoid alkaloids. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 12(12). 1846–1846. 54 indexed citations
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Cortez, Felipe de Jesus, et al.. (2013). Synthetic studies on the icetexones: enantioselective formal syntheses of icetexone and epi-icetexone. Tetrahedron. 69(27-28). 5665–5676. 20 indexed citations

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