Robert N. Henrie II, PhD, specializes in patents involving inventions in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields. 

Dr. Henrie earned combined bachelors and masters degrees from Bucknell University (BS, 1974, cum laude; MS, 1975).  He earned a PhD in chemistry from Princeton University in 1979.  Thereafter he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Agricultural University, Wageningen, the Netherlands (1979) studying macroheterocycle synthesis, which was followed by a postdoctoral appointment at Penn State University (1980-1982), where he studied biological chemistry.

Dr. Henrie worked as a Discovery Chemist at FMC Corporation, Princeton, NJ, for 24 years (1983-2006), where he lead discovery programs in plant growth regulators, herbicides, and insecticides, involving various enzyme, receptor, and ion channel target sites.  His work resulted in 30 patents.

Dr. Henrie is licensed to practice before the USPTO.  He joined Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP in 2007 as a patent agent.

Year Joined Organization:

2007

Practice Group(s):

Chemical and ChemPharma

Bar Admissions:

United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2007

Education:

The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1980-1982
Post-doctoral research, organic synthesis of enzyme inhibitors and biological chemistry

The Agricultural University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 1979
Post-doctoral research, macroheterocyclic synthesis, porphyrins

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1979
PhD,
Major: synthetic heterocyclic chemistry

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1975
MS
Major: chemistry/organic chemistry

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1974
BS
Honors: Cum Laude
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Major: chemistry/organic chemistry

Past Employment Positions:

FMC Corporation, Princeton, NJ
Discovery Research Chemist, 1982-2006

Professional Associations and Memberships:

American Chemical Society

Published Works:

G. Eberlein, T. C. Bruice, R. A. Lazarus, R. Henrie, S. J. Benkovic, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 1984, 106, 7916.  The Interconversion of the 5,6,7,8-Tetrahydro-, 7,8-Dihydro-, and Radical Forms of 6,6,7,7-Tetramethyldihydropterin.  A Model for the Biopterin Center of Aromatic Amino Acid Mixed Function Oxidases.

R. N. Henrie II, M. J. Plummer, S. E. Smith, W. H. Yeager, and D. A. Witkowski, Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships, 1993, 12(1), 27-37.  Discovery and Optimization of a PSI Electron-Accepting 1,2,4-Benzotriazine Herbicide.

R. N. Henrie II and W. H. Yeager, Heterocycles, 1993, 35(1), 415-426 [dedicatory issue in honor of Prof. E. C. Taylor’s 70th birthday]. Reaction of Diazole Anions with Hexafluorobenzene:  an Unexpectedly Facile Entry into Hexa(diazol-1-yl)benzenes.

CJ Peake, KS Avor, BD Bennett, JW Buser, DW Bushman, MK Chaguturu, PA Cruickshank, TG Cullen, RV Dargar, JA Dybas, J Fiordeliso, RN Henrie II, AC Lew, SY Lin, AC Oliphant, GT Payne, EL Plummer, MJ Plummer, PS Ray, JM Willut, WH Yeager, DHFR-Inhibiting Insecticides: 2,4-Diamino-6-arylquinazolines, in Chemistry and Biology of Pteridines and Folates 1997, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Pteridines and Folates, Berchtesgaden, Germany, June 15-20, 1997, Ed. by W Pfleiderer and H Rokos, Blackwell Science, Berlin, 1997, pp. 133-138.

JM Wierenga, TGCullen, JADybas, RN Henrie II, CJ Peake, and MJ Plummer, Pest Management Science, 2000, 56(3), 233-236.  Insecticidal activity and mode of action of 2,4-diaminopyrimidines.

RN Henrie II, SF Ali, KG Anouna, TA Bara, EJ Barron, JW Buser, DH Cohen, PA Cruickshank, TG Cullen, ME Ditolvo, JA Dybas, DJ Kerwick, LV LaFrance, DC Lloyd, JW Lyga, MJ Manning, FL Marek, AC Oliphant, CJ Peake, MJ Plummer, DS Rosen, EG Rowley, IR Silverman, SW Szczepanski, MA Walsh, CA Webster, and JM Wierenga, Insecticidal N-Arylalkyl-4-benzhydrolpiperidines: Optimization of the Benzhydrol Region, Chapter 20 in "Synthesis and Chemistry of Agrochemicals VI," edited by DR Baker, JG Fenyes, GP Lahm, TP Selby, and TM Stevenson, ACS Symposium Series No. 800, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2002, 211-218.

Robert N. Henrie II, Thomas Cullen, Benjamin Dugan, Larry Zhang, Yanli Deng, Sandra F. Simpson, Bruce Black, Franz Schuler, and Seong Jae Yu, Discovery of Insecticidal Cyanine Dyes, Chapter 7 in “Synthesis and Chemistry of Agrochemicals VII”, ACS Symposium Series No. 948, edited by JW Lyga and G Theodoridis, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2007, 83-92.

 

Honors and Awards:

Phi Beta Kappa