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 research including surfactants, propellants/energetic materials, process chemistry, microreactors/continuous flow reactors, polymers, pharmaceuticals, amino acid modification, 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. In addition, she has a strong background in characterization techniques including GC-MS, LC-MS, IR, DSC, TGA, UV-Vis and NMR spectrometry. Dr. Charney also performed research under Dr. Collard at Georgia Tech directed towards the design and synthesis of electronic materials using fluorous conjugated systems. During 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.

Prior to graduate school, Dr. Charney was a high school Chemistry and Physics teacher at Summerville Preparatory School in South Carolina.

Professional Recognition

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

Professional Activities

• American Chemical Society

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "Organosilicon-Functional Phase Transfer Catalysts," PCT Int. Appl., 2008.
• Coauthor. "Phase-Selective Solubility of Poly(N-alkylacrylamide)s," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2003.