Organo Fluorine and Chloro Silicone Chemical Consultant

Technical Consultant #1140

More than 40 years of chemical consulting and technical programs in these areas:

1963 - 2001 Dow Dow Corning Corporation

Various technical and managerial roles in Research, in Technical Services & Development and in Process Engineering Departments.
Expert in both organofluorine processing and in specialty silicon intermediate processing, including ultra pure silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) for optical applications.
Career activities used academic and practical chemistry training to successfully bridge technical problem solving across industrial product and process R&D.
Work primarily directed at existing and new chemical intermediates (building blocks) and the methods for their safe, efficient production.
Last 20 years service in Process Engineering Research focused on silicon intermediates processing.
R&D projects led to successful multi-million dollar plant construction projects, including a foreign assignment in Japan.

Patents

1987, EP 0219949, (co-inventor), Organo-silicon Ketene Acetal Compounds
1989, US 4,798,818, (co-inventor), Catalyst Composition and Process for Its Preparation
1991, EP 0453891, Isomer Specific Preparation of 3,3,3-Trifluoropropene from Difluorocarbene Precursor and Vinyl Monomer
1992, EP 0319153, Preparation of 3,3,3-Trifluoropropene

Publications

1967, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 32, 603-607, (co-authored), The Preparation and Coupling of Some Alpha-Haloperfluorocarbon-s-triazines
1970, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 35, 270-271, (co-authored), 1,3 Rearrangements of the Dichloromethyl Group
1971, Polymer Preprints American Chemical Society, Div. Polymer Chemistry, 12(1), 482-488, (co-authored), New Hybrid Fluorosilicones, I. Monomers
1971, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 1(2), 203-218, (co-authored), Synthesis of Alpha, Omega-bis-(Silyl)Polyfluoroalkane Derivatives

Books and Book Chapters

Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, (1994), 11, 467-482, (co-authored), Fluorine Compounds, Organic - Introduction
Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, (1994), 11, 722-729, (co-authored), Poly(fluorosilicones)
Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 5th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, (2004 in press), on-line version available as of July, 2004, Fluorine Compounds, Organic Introduction.
Fluorine Chemistry: A Comprehensive Treatment, M. Howe-Grant, ed., John Wiley, New York, 1995, (co-authored) one chapter on Fluorine Compounds and (co-authored) one chapter on Fluorosilicones.