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Entrepreneurs’ True Stories of Sucess featuring SCHB member, Dr. John Gontarz

2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Happy New Year greetings! Please join us this Friday evening Jan 7, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) for SCHB Entrepreneurs’ True Stories of Sucess featuring SCHB member, Dr. John Gontarz, as he shares his tales of obstables and growth: How solving a personal tartar problem became a business.

The program will begin shortly after 7pm and will be followed by Q&A then group discussion and socializing. 

Register in advance for this Happy Hour N’ Learn Zoom event:
https://american-chemical-society.zoom.com/meeting/register/tZUlfuyuqzojHdR0CCOVl9hBUNLaeVnTrOuI
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See our speaker’s CV below:

 

John Gontarz

Landenberg, PA 19350 · 610-659-118

Experience

1962 – 1966 New England Nuclear Corporation

Technician: Synthesis of C-14 and H-3 labelled compounds for scientific and metabolic studies
1970 – 2000 ICI Americas

Research Chemist, Development Superintendent, Surfactant Plant Manager, IT Manager.

Developed commercial route to the novel pyrethroid permethrin. Developed novel drug candidates. Managed team of engineers introducing new products into ICI plants. Developed technology to manufacture isosorbide. Managed 8 independent surfactant plants manufacturing over 500 products. Introduced Statistical Process Control into batch operations to reduce in-process testing and improve product consistency. Managed a team of IT professionals through the successful implementation of Y2K solutions.

Education

1966  BA

BA – Organic Chemistry – Boston University
1970  PhD 

University Of Notre Dame –  Study of Organic Mechanisms

Tartarend LLC – 2016-2022

  • Developed, patented, trademarked, and commercialized a novel formulation for the removal of tartar and plaque from teeth without abrasives.
  • Designed and manage a website for marketing TartarEnd® toothpaste.
  • Manage raw material procurement, manufacture, storage, and fulfillment of TartarEnd® Toothpaste on numerous marketplaces.
  • Manage payables, receivables, and other accounting functions for TartarEnd LLC
  • Manage TartarEnd® marketing activities.

 

Publications and Patents

  • Mechanism of the oxymercuration of substituted cyclohexenes, Daniel J. Pasto

 and John A. Gontarz ,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1971, 93, 25, 6902–6908

 

  •  Mechanism of the reduction of organomercurials with sodium borohydride, Daniel J. Pasto

 and John A. Gontarz ,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1969, 91, 3, 719-721

 

  • Mechanism of the reduction of organomercurials with sodium borohydride, Daniel J. Pasto

and John A. Gontarz ,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1969, 91, 3, 719-721

 

  • Characterization of torsional angle effects as the dominant steric effect in the hydroxymercuration of substituted cyclohexenes, Daniel J. Pasto and John A. Gontarz ,  
  1. Am. Chem. Soc. 1971, 93, 25, 6909-6913

 

  • PhD Thesis: Studies of the mechanism and steric effects of the hydroxymercuration of substituted cyclohexenes. University of Notre Dame (September, 1970 )

 

  • Gontarz et al. US Patent 3,978.033 August 31, 1976  Difurylidine Cycloalkanones as Photoactive Prodegradants for Polyolefins

 

  • Gontarz et al. US Patent 3,994,869 November 30, 1976  Photodegradable Polyolefins Containing Aryl-substituted 1,3 Diones.

 

  • John A Gontarz US Patent 10,517,808 “ORAL CARE FORMULATION AND METHOD FOR THE REMOVAL OF TARTAR AND PLAQUE ROM TEETH”

 

  • John A Gontarz US Patent 10,702,465 “ORAL CARE FORMULATION AND METHOD FOR THE REMOVAL OF TARTAR AND PLAQUE ROM TEETH”

 

  • TARTAREND Trademark Registration # 6,165,245

 

  • Foreign Patents Pending

Details

Date:
2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm