Reagan R. Charney Ph.D.

Student Associate

Reagan Charney focuses her work primarily on chemical patent prosecution.

Prior to joining Finnegan, Dr. Charney earned her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Georgia Tech with advisors Dr. Charles Liotta and Dr. Charles Eckert. All of her projects were directed towards the development of novel sustainable technology. Her research covered a wide variety of areas including surfactants, propellants/energetic materials, process chemistry, microreactors/continuous flow reactors, polymers, pharmaceuticals, amino acid modification, biofuels, and catalysis. Specifically, she designed, synthesized, purified, characterized, and applied cleavable surfactants and silylated phase transfer catalysts. She designed, built, optimized, and utilized a novel microreactor for a multi-step synthesis for a pharmaceutical precursor. Lastly, she performed structure modification of amino acids for supercritical fluid chromatography analysis. She also has a strong background in characterization techniques including GC-MS, LC-MS, IR, DSC, TGA, UV-Vis and NMR spectrometry.

Dr. Charney performed research under Dr. Collard at Georgia Tech directed towards the design and synthesis of electronic materials using fluorous conjugated systems. In her time at Georgia Tech, she was an inventor on a patent and was involved in the patent writing process for a silylated phase transfer catalysts project.

Highlights

• Served as a chemistry and physics teacher at Summerville Preparatory School, in South Carolina, 2003-2004.
• Coauthor of the PCT International Application, "Organosilicon-Functional Phase Transfer Catalysts," 2008.

Professional Recognition

• Recognized by Georgia State University College of Law for outstanding performance in Contract Law, 2010 and Constitutional Law, 2010.
• Georgia State University College of Law Intellectual Property Scholarship.
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005-2008.
• Other awards in graduate school include Sam Nunn International Security Fellowship; United Nations Summit for Sam Nunn International Security Seminar, Tunis, Tunisia; Presidential Fellowship from Georgia Tech. Undergraduate awards include Best Thesis and Best Oral Presentation for Physical Science in Fellows Program, Abbot Award for Outstanding Senior in Chemistry, Monsanto Undergraduate Chemistry Scholarship.

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "Phase-Selective Solubility of Poly(N-alkylacrylamide)s," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2003.