Andrew O. Larsen

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Randall Douglas
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Andrew O. Larsen, Ph.D. is an associate in Merchant & Gould's New York Office. Andrew focuses his practice on freedom-to-operate and validity investigations, infringement analysis, due diligence, and patent procurement in the pharmaceutical, biotechnical and chemical sciences, and also provides support in litigation and interferences. He has an extensive background in the areas of organic, organometallic and polymer chemistry, and has written and prosecuted patent applications in these and other areas both in the United States and abroad.

Prior to joining Merchant & Gould, Andrew was a patent agent at an intellectual property law firm in New York. He was also National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Boston College where he developed new methods in catalytic and enantioselective organic synthesis, which have since been applied to the total synthesis of complex natural product targets. During his graduate work at The University of North Carolina, Andrew developed new approaches to asymmetric synthesis using polymer supported early and late transition metal-based catalyst systems and the concept of molecular imprinting.

Education

College of William and Mary
B.S., Chemistry, 1996

University of North Carolina
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, 2002

Boston College
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-2004

Fordham University School of Law
J.D., 2010

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
New York

Bidentate NHC-Based Chiral Ligands for Efficient Cu-Catalyzed Enantioselective Allylic Alkylations: Structure and Activity of an Air-Stable Chiral Cu Complex, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126: 11130-11131, Andrew Larsen, Ph.D., J.E. Campbell, A.H. Hoveyda, W. Leu, C.N. Oberhuber (2004)

Ethylene-Linked Bisphenol Ligands: Efficient Synthesis, Titanium Coordination Chemistry and Lewis Acid Catalysis, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 15: 121-124, Andrew Larsen, Ph.D., J.W. Anthis, M.R.Gangé, P.S. White (2003)

Disparate Roles of Chiral Ligands and Molecularly Imprinted Cavities in Asymmetric Catalysis and Chiral Poisoning, Organometallics, 21: 7-9, Andrew Larsen, Ph.D., M.R. Gangé, J.H. Koh, P.S. White (2002)

Asymmetric Pt(II)-Catalyzed Ene Reactions: Counterion Dependent Additive and Diphosphine Electronic Effects, Organic Letters, 3: 1233-1236, Andrew Larsen, Ph.D., M.R. Gangé, J.H. Koh (2001)

Asymmetric Synthesis of Rigid C2-Symmetric Bis(ferrocenyl) Diol and Diamine Ligands, Organometallics 1999, 18, 5157-5162; Andrew Larsen, Ph.D., R. A. Taylor, P. S. White and M. R. Gagné

Acid-Base Adducts of Catalytically Active Titanium(IV) Lewis Acids, Inorg. Chem. 1999, 38, 4824-4828; Andrew Larsen, Ph.D., P. S. White and M. R. Gagné