Richard A. Ferrieri Chemist Supercritical fluid (sf) technology in aspects of PET radiotracer production  involving chemistry, chromatography and isotope extraction.  Specific areas  include: optical spectroscopy of chiral nanoclusters in sf's and application to chiral chemistry; sf chromatography applied to PET studies using radioactive inhalants; radioisotope extraction from solid targets using sf extraction. Telephone:  631-344-4947 e-mail:  rferrieri@bnl.gov

B.S. Fairfield University, 1975; Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 1979

Technical Collaborator, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 4/78-9/79; Research Associate, BNL, 9/79-9/81; Assistant Chemist, BNL, 9/81-9/83; Associate Chemist, BNL, 10/83-9/86; Chemist, BNL, 10/86-9/87; Visiting Scientist UC Berkeley, 7/86-1/87; Chemist continuing, BNL.

Selected publications:

Mass Separation Due to the Rapid Expansion of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Fluid Across a Thermal Gradient
R. A. Ferrieri and A. P. Wolf
Separation Science and Technology  30, 3245 (1995)

Structural Influences on the Chemical Reactivity of Hydrocarbons Toward Nucleogenic Carbon Atoms
R. A. Ferrieri, R. B. Sharma and A. P. Wolf
Tetrahederon 53, 10155-10168 (1997)

Stereochemical Consequences of Recoil Halogen Atom Substitution IV:  Effect of Kinetic Energy Moderator Concentration on the ¹⁸F-for-X (X=Br,F) Reactions on Gaseous Diastereomeric 2,3-Bromofluorobutanes
R. A. Ferrieri, R. B. Sharma, A. P. Wolf and E. P. Rack
Radiochimica Acta 77, 29-35 (1997)

Investigations of Acetonitrile Solvent Cluster Formation in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, and its Impact on Microscale Synthesis of Carbon-11 Labelled Radiotracers for PET
R. A. Ferrieri, I. Garcia, J. S. Fowler and A. P. Wolf
Nucl. Med. Biol. 26, 443-454 (1999)

Toluene Inhalation Produces Regionally Specific Changes In Extracellular Dopamine
M.R. Gerasimov, W.K. Schiffer, D. Marstellar, R.A. Ferrieri, D. Alexoff and S.L. Dewey
Inhalation Toxicology (submitted)