Frank Glorius

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Frank Glorius (* 1972 in Walsrode ) is a German chemist and professor of organic chemistry in the chemistry and pharmacy department at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Life

He completed his chemistry studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover in 1997 with a diploma, interrupted by a nine-month academic research stay at Stanford University with Paul A. Wender in 1995/1996. He received his doctorate in 2000 at the University of Basel with Andreas Pfaltz after research work at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (1997–1999) and at the University of Basel (1999–2000) on new chiral bisoxazoline ligands for enantioselective catalysis . After a postdoctoral stay at Harvard University in Cambridge , United States, with David A. Evans with work on the natural product synthesis of Aflastatin A, there followed from 2001 to 2004 a time as an independent researcher / junior research group leader / habilitation candidate with Alois Fürstner as a mentor. Before the formal completion of his habilitation, he was offered a C3 professorship for chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg , which was taken up in December 2004. Since 2007 he has been a W3 professor for chemistry at the Westphalian Wilhelms University.

The focus of his work lies in the field of catalysis for organic synthesis, with various topics being worked on, such as the development and application of N -heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), CH activation , asymmetric organocatalysis , chemo- and enantioselective aromatic hydrogenation , photoredox catalysis , development of Screening strategies, metal-organic networks (MOFs) and heterogeneous catalysis . Particular attention was paid to a "robustness screen", completely regioselective heterogeneous CH functionalization with Pd / C- and Rh (III) -catalyzed CH activation.

honors and awards

In 2006, Glorius received the Alfried Krupp Award , endowed with 1,000,000 euros, from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation , in 2010 from the European Research Council (ERC) the ERC Independent Researcher Starting Grant endowed with 1,500,000 euros, and in 2013 from the German Research Foundation the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .

In addition, Glorius received u. a. the Liebig grant and the lecturer grant from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie , the ORCHEM Prize 2004 from the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), the Lilly Lecture Award 2004 from the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly , the BASF Catalyis Award 2005, the OMCOS Award 2011 and the Springer Heterocyclic Chemistry Award 2012.

In 2013 Glorius was made an honorary member of the Israel Chemical Society, in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 he was repeatedly honored as a "Highly Cited Researcher". In 2014 Glorius also received the Novartis Chemistry Lectureship Award 2014/2015, followed by the Mukaiyama Award in 2017. In 2018, Glorius was selected for the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS), for the Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and for the French Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize . For 2020 he was awarded the Otto Roelen Medal .

In addition, in 2014 Frank Glorius was awarded the Golden Brendel by the students of the Chemistry Department at Münster University for excellent teaching . In 2017, he was also awarded the IPMI Faculty Advisor Award as a good doctoral supervisor.

Glorius is a member of numerous bodies and committees, e. B. on the board of trustees of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, on the selection committee of the Humboldt Foundation for postdoc grants, on the board of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS) and chairman of the Münster branch of the Society of German Chemists (2011–2014).

Glorius received the "Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award 2020" for his work in the field of catalysis science from the Organic Chemistry Institute of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU). It is endowed with five million yen (almost 41,000 euros).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul A. Wender, Frank Glorius u. a .: Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5 + 2] Cycloadditions of Allenes and Vinylcyclopropanes: First Studies of Endo-Exo Selectivity, Chemoselectivity, Relative Stereochemistry, and Chirality Transfer. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 121, 1999, pp. 5348-5349, doi: 10.1021 / ja9903072 .
  2. ^ Matthew N. Hopkinson, Christian Richter, Michael Schedler, Frank Glorius: An overview of N-heterocyclic carbenes. In: Nature. 510, 2014, pp. 485-496, doi: 10.1038 / nature13384 .
  3. ↑ Joanna Wencel-Delord, Frank Glorius: CH bond activation enables the rapid construction and late-stage diversification of functional molecules. In: Nature Chemistry. 5, 2013, pp. 369-375, doi: 10.1038 / nchem . 1607 .
  4. ↑ Xavier Bugaut, Frank Glorius: Organocatalytic umpolung: N-heterocyclic Carbenes and beyond. In: Chemical Society Reviews. 41, 2012, p. 3511, doi: 10.1039 / C2CS15333E .
  5. ↑ MP Wiesenfeldt, Z. Nairoukh, W. Li, F. Glorius, Hydrogenation of fluoroarenes: Direct access to all-cis- (multi) fluorinated cyclo-alkanes, Science 2017, 357, 908-912.
  6. ^ Karl D. Collins, Frank Glorius: A robustness screen for the rapid assessment of chemical reactions. In: Nature Chemistry. 5, 2013, pp. 597-601, doi: 10.1038 / nchem . 1669 .
  7. ^ Dan-Tam D. Tang, Karl D. Collins, Frank Glorius: Completely Regioselective Direct CH Functionalization of Benzo [b] thiophenes Using a Simple Heterogeneous Catalyst. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135, 2013, pp. 7450-7453, doi: 10.1021 / ja403130g .
  8. ↑ Nadine Kuhl, Nils Schröder, Frank Glorius: Formal SN-Type Reactions in Rhodium (III) -Catalyzed CH Bond Activation. In: Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 356, 2014, pp. 1443-1460, doi: 10.1002 / adsc.201400197 .
  9. ↑ Press release Leibniz Prize
  10. ↑ ORCHEM Prize | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker eV Accessed February 4, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Homepage Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters)
  12. ↑ Mukaiyama Award announcement ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ssocj.jp
  13. ^ Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards home page
  14. ↑ Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award homepage
  15. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Chemistry Department : Chemistry Department - University of Münster | Events. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
  16. ↑ IPMI website
  17. ↑ Frank Glorius receives award for catalysis research. July 22, 2020, accessed July 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Glorius, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsrode