Chemical Consultants Network ZOOM MEETING

OPTIMIZATION WITHOUT STATISTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Paul L. Fishbein, Ph.D.

DATE & TIME: Wednesday October 9, 2024, 6:30 PM

Abstract: There are numerous methods of optimizing a chemical reaction, process, or material that do not involve statistical Design of Experiments. These methods are simple, easy to implement by almost anyone in the laboratory or plant, and are appealing to Management. This presentation will discuss several of them and provide some examples.

Biography: Paul Fishbein, a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, obtained his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Rochester and his doctorate in organic synthesis at the University of California under Harold Moore. Paul was a post-doctoral associate at the University of Houston under Harold Kohn and then a postdoctoral fellow at Schering-Plough Pharmaceutical Company (merged into Merck & Co.).

Paul spent the beginning of his career in the Chemicals and Pigments department at DuPont (now Chemours) and then most of his career at Johnson Matthey Pharmaceutical Materials (now Veranova) becoming a Senior Principal Scientist where, in addition to being a Project Leader, he was in charge of a kilo-scale GMP laboratory as well all reference standard syntheses. Toward the end of his career, Paul worked for an intellectual property prior art search company (now RWS), and Keystone Research & Pharmaceutical (dental polymers and fingernail coatings) as a Senior Research Chemist and a Patent Liaison. He is also an adjunct professor at Rowan University teaching a graduate course in process chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry. Paul holds several patents in drug substance syntheses and in fingernail coating formulations.

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Location:  Online via Zoom! (registration required)