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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:
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See our speaker’s CV below:
John Gontarz
Landenberg, PA 19350 · 610-659-118 |
Experience
1962 – 1966 New England Nuclear CorporationTechnician: 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 BABA – Organic Chemistry – Boston University |
1970 PhD
University Of Notre Dame – Study of Organic Mechanisms |
Tartarend LLC – 2016-2022
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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 ,
- 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