Thomas M. Harris

American chemist. As a co-worker of Charles R. Hauser at Duke University he discovered in 1958 that the dianions of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds are alkylated selectively at the γ carbon.

Later, as professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, he applied the polyanions of polycarbonyl compounds to the biomimetic synthesis of aromatic polyketide natural products, and went on to study the synthesis and structure of the adducts that chemical carcinogens form with DNA.

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