Michael Hanack

Michael Hanack 2004 at the 3rd International Conference of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines

Georg Michael Hanack (born October 22, 1931 in Luckenwalde ; † November 6, 2019 ) was a German chemist . He was a professor of chemistry at the University of Tübingen .

Life

From 1949 to 1954 he studied chemistry , philosophy and economics at the universities of Freiburg , Bonn and Tübingen and completed his studies with a chemistry diploma. He completed his doctoral thesis in Walter Hückel's working group in Tübingen and completed it in 1957 with the thesis: "Solvolysis of toluene sulfonates of the stereoisomeric cis-alpha-hydrindanols and contributions to measurement methodology".

After his assistantship in the Walter Hückel working group from 1957 to 1958, he began his own research on the subjects of organofluorochemistry , physical organic chemistry and stereochemistry . After his habilitation in 1961, he was awarded the title of Privatdozent . At that time, at the age of 31, he was one of the youngest private lecturers in Germany. In 1968 he was promoted to associate professor at the University of Tübingen. As early as 1970 he was offered a chair as professor of organic chemistry and head of the chemistry department at Saarland University . In April 1975 he returned to the University of Tübingen as Professor of Organic Chemistry (successor to Eugen Müller ). At the University of Tübingen, Hanack was also dean of the faculty for chemistry and pharmacy from 1981 to 1983 and head of the department for chemistry from 1995 to 2001. In the course of his scientific research, he was awarded the Lifetime Honorary Membership of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1966 , 1988 the Invitation Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 1991 the honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from the University of Complutense Madrid , 2000 the Arthur G. Dandridge Award and 2002 the Elhuyar-Goldschmid Award. From 2001 he was professor emeritus , but continued his research work.

Research fields

• Organic fluorine compounds , perfluorinated pyrethroids
• Stereochemistry , conformational analysis
• Organic reaction mechanisms , chemistry from vinyl and phenyl cations
• Synthesis of macroheterocyclic transition metal complexes (such as phthalocyanines ) as organic conductors ("Shish-Kebab" polymers)
• Compounds with magnetic and non-linear optical properties

Selected publications

• Fluorine compounds of the terpene series: reactions of hydrogen fluoride with double bonds and three rings. Tubingen, 1962.
• Conformation Theory. New York: Academic Press 1965, ISBN 978-0-12-322550-4 .
• PJ Stang, Z. Rappoport, H. Hanack, LR Subramanian: Vinyl Cations ; ; Academic Press, NY 1979, ISBN 978-0-12-663780-9 . Elsevier
• Michael Hanack, Siegmar Roth, Hermann Schier: Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals. 1991.
• Literature list at ResearchGate ( Michael Hanack )

Working group

230 PhD students and a large number of postdocs and visiting researchers from Europe and overseas studied and worked under his leadership.

editorial staff

• 1982–2003 Editorial Board of Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry ( Thieme Medical Publishers )
• 1985–1998 Editorial Advisory Board of Synthesis ( Thieme Medical Publishers )
• 1999–2008 Honorary Advisory Board of Synthesis ( Thieme Medical Publishers )
• 2004–2008 Editorial Board of Synthetic Metals ( Elsevier Science )
• since 1997 Editorial Board of Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines ( John Wiley & Sons , World Scientific )

literature

• LR SUBRAMANIAN: Tribute to Professor Dr Michael Hanack. In: Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. 04, 2012, p. 300, doi : 10.1002 / (SICI) 1099-1409 (200004/05) 4: 3 <300 :: AID-JPP218> 3.0.CO; 2-1 .

Web links

• Homepage of Professor Hanack's working group
• Dedication to Professor Michael Hanack on the Occasion of his 80th Anniversary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Michael Hanack (1931 - 2019). In: ChemViews Magazine. November 7, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 .