Born on October 3, 1937 in New York City Columbia University, B.A. 1959 Columbia University, Ph.D. 1962 University of Wisconsin National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1962-1963

Columbia University Fellow - 1960-1961 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow - 1962-1963 Assistant Professor of Chemistry - Ohio State University 1963-1966 Associate Professor of Chemistry - SUNY at Buffalo, 1966-1969 Professor of Chemistry - State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969-1979 William P. Timmie Professor of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., 1979- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow - 1968-1970 Consultant, Union Carbide Corporation, Charleston, West Virginia, 1965-1978 Consultant, Speciality Chemical Division, Pfizer Chemical, 1986-1987 NIH Special Senior Research Fellow, 1972 (Harvard University) NATO Senior Research Fellow, 1973 (E.T.H., Zurich, Switzerland) Medicinal Chemistry A Study Section, National Institutes of Health (1976-1980) Participant in the U.S.-India Exchange of Scientist Program (1976-1977) Member of Editorial Board of Reviews of Chemical Intermediates Executive Committee - Organic Division of the Interamerican Photochem. Soc.1977-1979 Alternate Councilor, Organic Division, American Chemical Society, (1978-1985) Editor-at-Large- Organic Chemistry Marcel Dekker, Inc., (1978-1991), Visiting Professor-University Claude Bernard - Lyons, France, 1978 Ad Hoc Task Force to Monitor the Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1979-1981 Guest Editor, Tetrahedron Symposium in Print-"Recent Advances in Organic Photochemistry" Editor - Monograph on 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions - Wiley Inc. 1984 Organizing Committee - IX IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, 1982 Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1981-1985 John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1981-1982 Sigma Xi Award, 1981, Atlanta Section ACS Awards Committee for the Selection of James Flack Norris Award, 1982-1984 Visiting Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1982 Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1982 Chairman - Gordon Research Conference on Heterocycles,1983 Chairman - NSF Workshop on Reactive Intermediates,1981-1983 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1983-1985 Visiting Professor, University of Wurzburg, West Germany, 1983-1985 Plenary Lecturer - 28th National Organic Symposium, 1983 1983 Herty Medalist of the Southeast American Chemical Society Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1984-1987 Japan Society Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow, 1984 Visiting Professor - University of Peking (China), 1984 Chairman Organic Division - American Chemical Society, 1985-1986 Senior Advisory Editor, JAI Press, 1983-1999 ACS Awards Committee for the Selection of Arthur C. Cope Awardee 1986-1987 USA-Israeli Binational Awardee, 1985-1994 NATO Research Awardee, 1984-1989, University of Catania, Italy Recipient of Emory University Scholar-Teacher Award, 1988 ACS Awards Committee for the Nobel Laureate Signature Award 1989-1992 Ad Hoc Task Force to Monitor the Journal of American Chemical Society, 1990 ACS Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board, 1990-1992 NATO Research Awardee, 1990-1994, Lougborough University, England US-UK NSF Cooperative Research Award, 1990 1990 Southern Chemist Award, Memphis Section of the American Chemical Society Visting Professor, Imperial College of Chemistry, London, England 1990 Symposium Chairman, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Washington 1990 ACS Meeting Fulbright Hays Fellowship, Great Britain 1990-1992 Rayson Huang Visiting Lectureship, University of Hong Kong, 1993 Editorial Advisory Board, Heterocyclic Communications, 1994-present 1994 Recipient of the Florida Award, Florida Sections of the American Chemical Society President of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1994-1996 Executive Advisory Board of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1996-1998 Advisory Board of Electronic Conference on Trends in Organic Chemistry, 1995-1997 ACS Awards Committee for the Selection of the Pure Chemistry Awardee, 1995-1997 2nd Michigan Chemistry Community Tour Lecturer, 1995 Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1996-2000 Volume Editor for Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry II, Elsevier Press, 1996 BASF Visiting Guest Professor, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; 1996 1996 Recipient of the Stone Award, Carolina Piedmont Section of the American Chemical Society Scientific Advisory Board for the Internet Journal of Chemistry; 1997-present Chemical Consultant -- Procter & Gamble; 1997 Symposium Chairman, Organometallic/Heterocyclic Chemistry, Boston 1998 ACS Meeting Expert Chemical Witness for Williams and Connolly Law Offices, 1997-present 1999 Senior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry from the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemists Honorary Fellow of the Florida Center for Heterocyclic Compounds, 1999-2004 Editorial Advisory Board, Organic Letters, 1999-present American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2000 Symposium Co-chairman, Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2000 Pacific Basin ACS Meeting, Honolulu Novartis Chemistry Lectureship, 2001 Editor-Monograph on 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions-Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds-Wiley, 2002 Volume Editor for Science of Synthesis (SOS); Vol 27, Compounds with Two Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds; Thieme-Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany 2002-2004 Associate Editor of Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2002-present Fellow of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Award, 2003 2004 Robert Lutz Lecturer at the University of Virginia, Charlottsville, Va, 2004 Novartis Central European Chemistry Lectureship (Prague, Budapest Bratislava) 3M Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 2005 Member of Editorial Board of Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry; Springer-Verlag, Germany; 2005-2008 Wilsmore Fellow in School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia 2005 Visiting Fellow in Research School of Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2005 Volume Editor for Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III. Elsevier Press, 2005-2007 2006 Leroy H. Klemm Lecturer at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Arkivoc Control Board Member; 2006-Present Visiting Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 2006 Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2008 Board of Consulting Editors; Elsevier (Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters), 2008