Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis

Professor Michael Harmata graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago with honors and highest distinction in chemistry.In 1980, he began graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana where he was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship. He worked with Professor Scott E. Denmark on the invention of the carbanion-accelerated Claisen rearrangement. In his second year of study, he was awarded an Eastman Kodak Research Fellowship.Upon graduation in 1985, he was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship which he used to study with Professor Paul A. Wender at Stanford University, where he worked on the synthesis of the neocarzinostatin chromophore.In 1986, Prof. Harmata began his independent career at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He became an Associate Professor in 1992 and a full professor in 1998. In 2000, he was named the Norman Rabjohn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in recognition of his achievements in research and teaching. In 1998, he received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and stayed for a year at the University of Göttingen where he was affiliated with the groups of Professors Reinhard Brückner and Lutz. F. Tietze. In 2000, he served as chair of the Gordon conference on Organic Reactions and Processes. In 2010, he was named the first Justus Liebig Professor of Chemistry at the Justus Liebig Üniversität in Giessen, Germany. In 2011, he was a JSPS fellow. He has been a visiting professor in Giessen and Strasbourg and has delivered over 180 invited lectures in the United States and Europe. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, and the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America.

• Foreword,   Albert Eschenmoser       Preface,   Michael HarmataTotal Synthesis of Strychnos Alkaloids,   Rodrigo B. AndradeTotal Synthesis of Celogentin C: Development of an Unusual Indole-Imidazole Oxidative Coupling,   Steven L. CastleA Carbonyl-Enabled Synthesis of the Guaiane Sesquiterpene Englerin A,   William J. ChainSynthesis of the Sesquiterpenes Anislactone A and Merrilactone A,   Michael GreaneySymmetry-Driven Total Synthesis of Merrilactone A and Resolvin E2,   Masayuki InoueStudies on bis - 1, 2, 4 - triazine ligands: Privileged Ligands for Separating Actinides from Lanthanides,   Frank Lewis, Laurence M. HarwoodSynthesis of (+) Hamigeran B using an Intramolecular Alkynylogous Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction,   Michel MieschExploring Prins Strategies for the Synthesis of Okilactomycin,   Karl ScheidtTaking Risks in Complex Synthesis Design,  Erik J. SorensenStereoselective Addition of Halogen to Conjugated Enynes and Its Application in the Total Synthesis of (-)-Kumausallene,   Weiping TangTotal Synthesis of Aspergillide C,   Stephen P. WatersIndex