Expert Details
Chemistry
ID: 718421
California, USA
Expert has synthesized new hindered olefins such as tetra neopentylethylene and homoadamantylidenehomoadamantane. He has made synthetic transformations based on oxidizing agents such as higher valency tungsten and molybdenum halides, hydrogen peroxide, bromine, and bromodimethylsulfonium bromide. He is knowledgeable
Expert has synthesized natural product intermediates, including steroids and steroidal intermediates.
Expert reinvestigated and characterized the catalyst of the Max Fisher patent for the polymerization of the alpha-olefins to polyolefins and the Hall and Nash synthesis of aluminum sesquihalides by NMR spectroscopy. He is experienced in handling pyrophoric aluminum alkyls, polyketene synthesis, and new polymerization methods. He has developed new polymers with unusual monomers.
Expert has expertise in the elucidation of the mechanism of methanol oligocondensation by acidic catalysts, hydrocarbon isomerizations using superacids, hydrocarbon functionalization, and the development of hydrocarbon-based fuel cells
He has extensive experience in the interpretation and analysis of NMR spectra, and routinely uses and maintains NMR, GC, GC-MS, HPLC, IR and UV spectrometers. Expert also has handled high pressure (0-10,000 psi) reactors and high vacuum equipment.
He is well versed in diffuse reflectance IR spectroscopy, as well as 2D techniques in NMR, including solid state methods.
Education
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| Year: 1978 | Degree: PhD | Subject: | Institution: Organic Chemistry - University of Southern California |
| Year: 1974 | Degree: MSc | Subject: | Institution: Chemistry - Indian Institute of Technology |
| Year: 1972 | Degree: BSc | Subject: | Institution: Chemistry - Bangalore University |
Work History
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| Years: 1997 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: | Department: |
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| Years: 1981 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: | Department: |
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| Years: 1994 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: | Department: |
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| Years: 1990 to 1994 | Employer: Associate Professor of Chemistr y | Title: | Department: |
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| Years: 1984 to 1990 | Employer: Research Associate Professor of Chemistr y | Title: | Department: |
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| Years: 1981 to 1984 | Employer: Research Assistant Professor of Chemistr y | Title: | Department: |
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| Years: 1979 to 1981 | Employer: Junior Fellow, Hydrocarbon Research Institut e | Title: | Department: |
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Fields of Expertise
carbocation, carbocation chemistry, physical organic chemistry, superacid, superacid-catalyzed isomerization, synthetic organic chemistry, natural product chemistry, steroid chemistry, organometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, hydrocarbon, hydrocarbon chemistry, Friedel-Crafts reaction, natural product, olefin polymerization, vacuum equipment, hydronium ion, aluminum alkyl, carborane, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, Lewis acid, chemical intermediate, polyolefin manufacturing, alpha olefin, hydrogen peroxide oxidation, characterization process, strong acid, fuel, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, acylation, carbanion, hydrocarbon polymer, nitration, reagent, organofluorine chemistry, alkane chemistry, feedstock, alkyl group, fluorine chemistry, refinery alkylation, photochemical reaction, infrared spectroscopy, monomer, steroid, spectroscopy, spectrophotometry, silicon, polyolefin resin, hydrogen peroxide, hydrogen chemistry, water halogenation, fluorine, bromine, alkane