Ripudaman Malhotra

Manager, Carbon Materials Program
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Laboratory
Pure and Applied Physical Sciences Division

SRI International
Menlo Park, CA 94025

E-mail: <ripu@mplvax.sri.com>
Phone: (650) 859-2805, Fax: (650) 859-6196

Specialized Professional Competence

Organic chemistry; chemical kinetics and reaction mechanisms; superacid-catalyzed Friedel-Crafts and related reactions; mass spectroscopy; gas and liquid chromatography; nuclear magnetic resonance; electro-organic synthesis; synthetic reagents and reactions

Representative Research Assignments at SRI (Since 1979)

Aromatic nitrations in liquid N₂O₄
Kinetics of aromatic nitration
Development of field test for PCBs based on their photochemistry
Chemical characterization of fossil fuels by field ionization MS (FIMS)
Mechanisms of hydrogen-transfer reactions
Mechanisms of bond cleavage and bond formation during coal conversion
Hydrothermal upgrading of Heavy Oils
Deposit formation in turbine fuels
Production and chemistry of C₆₀ and other fullerenes (buckyballs)

Other Professional Experience

Consulting Associate Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University (since 1983)
Associate Editor, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics (since 1988)
Secretary General, Materials Chemistry Secretariat of the American Chemical Society
Membership Chairman, Division of Fuel Chemistry of the American Chemical Society

Academic Background

B.Sc. (1971, with honors) and M.Sc. (1973) in chemistry, Delhi University (India);
Ph.D. in chemistry (1979), University of Southern California

Professional Associations

American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Bay Area Mass Spectrometry Society
American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Publications and Patents

Over sixty professional publications
Six patents
One book, Nitrations: Methods and Mechanisms, with G. A. Olah and S. C. Narang

Language Proficiency

Review papers in German; fluent in Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi