Dr. Holger Frank
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Curriculum Vitae
12/2024 - 11/2026 Vice Dean for Finance, Human Resources, Building and Structure since 01/2022 Honorary Judge at the Social Court Münster 07/2021 - 06/2024 Member of the Economic Committee of the Staff Councils of the University of Münster since 01/2017 Honorary Judge at the Financial Court Münster 01/2014 - 06/2017 Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Staff Councils of the University of Münster 07/2012 - 10/2024 Full member of the Staff Council of the Scientific Coworker of the University of Münster 07/2004 - 06/2012 Substituted member of the Staff Council of the Scientific Coworkers of the University of Münster since 08/2007 Department of Organic Chemistry (Organisch-Chemisches Institut), University of Münster, Senior Scientist in the Group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius since 10/2003 Organization of and Responsibility for the Advanced Practical Lab Courses in the Diploma/BSc/MSc/B2F Chemistry Studies 11/1998 - 12/2009 Member of the Management Board of the Collaborative Research Center 424 (SFB 424) 11/1998 - 07/2007 Department of Organic Chemistry (Organisch-Chemisches Institut), University of Münster, Senior Scientist in the Group of Prof. Dr. Dieter Hoppe 01/1995 - 10/1998 Sales representative for MSD Germany (subsidiary of Merck Inc., USA), working first in the field of antihypertensives, later on as a specialist for HIV-centers (protease inhibitors) 08/1993 - 08/1994 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby/Copenhagen, working with Prof. Inge Lundt and Prof. Christian Pedersen († 2003) 05/1989 - 07/1993 Dissertation (Ph.D. thesis) in the research group of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Redlich at the Universities of Hamburg (1989 - 1991) and Münster (1991 -1993) "Spiroacetals as Intermediates in Synthesis - A New Synthetic Strategy for the Preparation of non-natural Macrolide Antibiotics from Carbohydrate Precursors" 08/1988 - 04/1989 Diploma thesis in the research group of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Redlich at the University of Hamburg 10/1983 - 04/1989 Chemistry studies at the University of Hamburg 07/1982 - 09/1983 Basic military service in Stade (Pioneer Battalion 3) and Munster (Armored Pioneer Training Company 70) 08/1973 - 06/1982 Gymnasium Lüchow with final examination (Abitur), Lower Saxony 08/1969 - 06/1973 Elementary School in Clenze, Lower Saxony Awards and Scholarships
08/1989 - 12/1990 Graduate scholarship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg 04/1989 Diploma in Chemistry with honors (overall grade 1,0) Publications
H. Frank, T. Gruber,
Bericht über das Vernetzungstreffen der Praktikumsleiter in der Organischen Chemie,
Nachr. Chem. 2013, 61, 1274-1275.C. Derwing, H. Frank, D. Hoppe,
Chiral Benzyllithium Compounds: High Configurative Stability of (R)- and (S)-1-Lithioindan-1-yl N,N-Diisopropylcarbamate and Unexpected Stereochemical Course of the Substitution Reactions,
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 1999, 3519-3524.H. Frank, I. Lundt,
Selectively Tosylated Aldonolactones as Precursors for Highly Functionalized, Enantiomerically Pure Tetrahydrofurans,
Tetrahedron 1995, 51, 5397-5402.O. Kölln, H. Redlich, H. Frank,
Trimethylene Dithioacetals of Carbohydrates II. D-Arabinose-, D-Glucose-, and D-Mannose-(propane-1,3-diyl)-dithioacetals and their Isopropylidene Derivatives,
Synthesis 1995, 1383-1388.I. Lundt, H. Frank,
Enantiomerically Pure, Highly Functionalized Tetrahydrofurans from Simple Carbohydrate Precursors,
Tetrahedron 1994, 50, 13285-13298.