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Michael Harmata was born in Chicago on September 22, 1959. He received his AB degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1980. He studied "Carbanion-Accelerated Claisen Rearrangements" with Scott E. Denmark at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, earning his Ph.D. in 1985. He then worked on chemistry associated with the neocarzinostatin chromophore at Stanford University as an NIH fellow under the direction of Paul A. Wender. In 1986, he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia