Gernot Frenking

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Gernot Frenking (born January 23, 1946 in Körbecke ) is a German chemist and university professor who mainly deals with theoretical chemistry .

Life

From 1960 to 1964, Frenking initially trained as a chemical laboratory assistant at the paint factories of Bayer AG in Uerdingen . From 1964 he worked there as a chemical laboratory assistant. He graduated from secondary school and studied chemistry from 1969 to 1973 at RWTH Aachen University . In 1973 he received his diploma from the RWTH Aachen under Hans-Dieter Scharf with a thesis on calculations of chemical reactivity with the help of quantum theoretical models as well as measurements and theoretical calculations of the dipole moments of some compounds .

From 1973 to 1976 Frenking was a DAAD scholarship holder in Japan with Kenichi Fukui, in Kyoto where he worked on frontier orbital theory. Frenking was also one of the earliest scholarship holders in Japan from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the largest Japanese research funding company. From 1976 to 1979 he was a doctoral student at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TU Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1979 . From 1977 to 1982 he was an assistant at the TU with teaching tasks. Between 1979 and 1984 he did research with Helmut Schwarz for his habilitation in the field of theoretical organic chemistry and completed his habilitation with a paper on MO-SCF investigations on the structure and reactivity of molecules in the gas phase . From 1982 to 1984 he worked at the TU Berlin with a Liebig grant from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie . Frenking went to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) on the American west coast as a postdoc . There with Gilda Loew he researched structure-effect relationships of biologically active compounds, especially opiates, in theoretical investigations and carried out conformational investigations with the help of molecular mechanics calculations of pharmaceutically interesting compounds.

After returning to Germany, he was briefly a scientist at the Collaborative Research Center 260 at the Chemistry Department of the University of Marburg . In 1990 Frenking was appointed C3 professor for computer applications in chemistry at the University of Marburg, and in 1998 he became C4 professor for theoretical chemistry there.

Honors and memberships (selection)

Academic offices

  • Reviewer for the DFG (2004–2008)
  • Member of the Senate of the Philipps University of Marburg (1998–2008)
  • Secretary of the "World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists" (WATOC)
  • Editor of the Journal of Computational Chemistry
  • Member of several editorial boards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Society of JSPS Scholarship Holders eV: News from the JSPS Club ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 4/2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jsps-club.de
  2. ↑ GDCh Awards 2020 / DBG Awards 2020 . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition . June 11, 2020, doi : 10.1002 / anie.202005849 ( wiley.com [accessed June 12, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Frenking, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Baskets