RONGHUA LU

Atlanta, GA *****

859-***-**** (cell); Email: hueuw2@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

A research and development position in an industrial setting that calls for experience in synthetic organic chemistry field

RELEVANT SKILLS

An excellent team worker with 4 years of industrial R&D experience, multi-step organic synthesis of pharmaceutical intermediates on contract with Wyeth Research, R&D experience of new polymer products and supramolecular self-assembly

Utilization of a wide range of synthetic methods on gram to kilogram scale, experience in parallel synthesis, asymmetric synthesis, low temperature reactions, air and water sensitive reactions, high pressure gas phase reactions, isolation and purification of synthesized products by flash chromatography and vacuum distillation

Familiarity with analytical methods (NMR, GC-MS, HPLC, UV, IR, TLC …) and instrumentation used to characterize organic compounds

Familiarity with Microsoft office and literature review method, SciFinder and Beilstein

4 years of teaching assistant experience on undergraduate organic and physics chemistry laboratory

EDUCATION

MS, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, University of Kentucky (Kentucky)

Thesis: Catalytic classical resolution and synthesis of cyclohexenones and cyclopentenones

Synthesis of a series of new racematic cyclohexenones and cyclopentenones, and then obtaining enantiopure products by our new concept catalytic classical resolution

BS, Chemistry, Nankai University (China), The State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry

Thesis: Synthesis of some new pyrazolotriazines

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2010 –: Research Assistant in polymer research group at University of Georgia

Synthesis of new type Clathrin-like dendrimers and obtaining supramolecular structures from self-assembly

2000 – 2004: Synthetic organic chemist, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Industrial laboratory (application research) achievements:

2000-2002: As synthetic organic chemist, synthesized dozens of different organic pharmaceutical intermediates on contract with Wyeth Research independently

2002-2004: Research and development of new type perfluoroalkyl-containing compounds for textile finishing, on large and small scales; Research and development of new fluorined silicon oil products for industrial applications within a team work

Awards: 2002, 2003 & 2004 the Excellent Staff of SIOC, CAS

REFERENCES Available upon request