Thomas F. DeRosa is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. Previously, he was the division intellectual property officer at Texaco where he worked on fuel and lubricant additives and fuels containing traces of polymers. Prior to that, he was a senior chemist at AlliedSignal Corporation and a project chemist at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Howmedica Division. Dr. DeRosa has taught advanced organic, industrial, and polymer chemistry at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He has also authored Advances in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Methods Reported in US Patents and Significant Pharmaceuticals Reported in US Patents, and his name appears on over forty-five US patents.