Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis Series

1. The Substrate-Directed Heck-Matsuda Arylations. From Curiosity to a Valuable Synthetic Tool, Carlos Duarte Correia 2. (-)-Berkelic Acid: Lessons Learned from our Investigations on Scalable Total Synthesis, Francisco J. Fañanás 3. Replicating Nature's Schemes with Pericyclic Reactions, Kathlyn A. Parker 4. Total Synthesis of Chinensolide B: Overcoming Functional Group Selectivity and a Mislabeled Bottle of Carvone, Dennis Hall 5. The Synthesis of Borrerial and Flindersial Akaloids via Biosynthesis-Inspired Strategies, Jeremy A. May 6. Synthesis of (±)-Amathaspiramide F: Stereochemical Switch of a [2,3]-Stevens Rearrangement, Uttam Krishan Tambar 7. Halocylopropene Furan Cycloadditions: Application to the Total Synthesis of the Frondosins, Dennis Wright 8. Structure Inspires a New Method that Delivers the Synthesis of Natural Products and Analogs in the Pederin Family, Paul Floreancig 9. Gliocladin C: The Development of Visible Light Mediated, Catalytic Intermolecular Pyrroloindoline-indole Radical Coupling Reaction, Corey Stephenson 10. Adventures in Atropselective Synthesis, Jared Shaw 11. Sleepless Nights: The Total Synthesis of the Anticancer Australian Rainforest Polyketide EBC23, Craig McKenzie Williams 12. Total Synthesis of Crinipellin B, Hee-Yoon Lee

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.

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