Dr. Holger Frank

Dr. Holger Frank
© Marius Kühnemund / Uni MS
Dr. Holger Frank
Senior Scientist
Room 421, OC/BC I
Corrensstraße 36
48149 Münster
T: +49 251 8336505
F: +49 251 8339772
frankho@uni-muenster.de
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Chemistry Tree - Holger Frank Chemistry Family

  • 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.