Dr. F. (Frank) Hollmann

Biography

• 2008-present
  Assistant professor, Biocatalysis and Organic Chemistry group, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
• 2006-2008
  Research Manager Biotechnology, Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH, Essen, Germany
• 2005-2006
  Postdoctoral Fellow: Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
• 2004
  PhD: Institute of Biotechnology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
• 1999
  MSc: Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bonn, Germany

Research interests

• Organic synthesis using enzymes
• Redox biotransformations (enantiospecific oxidations, oxyfunctionalizations and reductions
• Novel (cofactor) regeneration approaches for oxidoreductases
• Unconventional reaction media

Key publications

• Churakova, E., Kluge, M., Ullrich, R., Arends, I.W.C.E., Hofrichter, M., Hollmann, F. Specific photobiocatalytic oxyfunctionalization reactions (2011) Angewandte Chemie – International Edition,　50 (45), pp. 10716-10719.
  dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201105308
• Hollmann, F., Holtmann, D., Arends, I.W.C.E. Enzymatic　reductions for the chemist (2011) Green Chemistry, 13 (9), pp. 2285-2313.
  dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1gc15424a
• Hollmann, F., Arends, I.W.C.E., Buehler, K., Buehler, B. Enzyme-mediated　oxidations for the chemist (2011) Green Chemistry, 13, pp. 226-265.
  dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0gc00595a
• Mifsud Grau, M., Van der Toorn, J.C., Otten, L.G., Macheroux, P., Taglieber, A., Zilly, F.E., Arends, I.W.C.E., Hollmann, F. Photoenzymatic reduction of C=C double bonds (2009) Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 351, pp. 3279–3286.
  dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsc.200900560
• Hollmann, F., Taglieber, A., Schulz, F., Reetz, M.T. A light-driven stereoselective biocatalytic oxidation (2007) Angewandte Chemie – International Edition, 46 (16), pp. 2903-2906. dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200605169