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Professional Experience
Vandana Awasthi is a Patent Agent working on contract with the IP law firm McNeely & Hare LLP. She has experience in a practice that emphasizes patent prosecution in the chemical and mechanical arts, including technologies such as coatings, pharmaceuticals, biocidal agents, medical devices and fishing equipment. Dr. Awasthi was formerly a professor teaching organic chemistry at the University of Delhi, Department of Chemistry (1993-2006). Her specialties within organic chemistry include organic stereochemistry, protein and carbohydrate chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry. Her research topics in obtaining her degrees were directed at flavin chemistry and synthesis.
Education
Doctorate Synthetic Organic Chemistry, University of Delhi, 1992
Masters of Science in Chemistry, University of Delhi, 1986
Bachelors of Science in Chemistry, University of Delhi, 1984
Practice areas
Patent Prosecution
Product Clearances
Technology areas
Chemical
Pharmaceutical
Mechanical
Bar admissions
Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Publications
1. Cyclocondensation of Ethyl-5,8-dimethoxy-4-hydroxyquinoline-3-carboxylate and related compounds with pthalicanhydride and phthaloylchloride under different conditions. Vandana Awasthi and S.M.S. Chauhan, Indian Journal of Chemistry 30B, 1991, pp 352-354.
2. Synthesis of newer amphiphilic 10-(Aminoalkyl)-Benzo[g]pteridines and related compounds. Vandana Awasthi, Abha Awasthi and S.M.S. Chauhan, Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 2, 1992, pp 11-14.
3. Amphiphilic isoalloxazines as models for membrane bound flavoenzymes. S.M.S. Chauhan, Vandana Awasthi and Abha Awasthi, Indian Journal of Chemistry 31B, 1992, 865-868.
4. Synthesis of new 5,12-Dihydroxy-6,11-dioxo-2-azanaphathacenes from 5,8-Dimethoxy-2-tosyl-1,2-dihydroxyquinolines. P.N.H Nizar, Vandana Awasthi and S.M.S. Chauhan, Journal of Indian Chemical Society 69, 1992, 876-878.
