Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region
Expert in all types of industrial fluorination technologies, route scouting, synthesis development, process upscaling, industrial launch and production. Professional skills in strategic identification and development of future technologies and molecules as building blocks for agro, pharma as well as specialty fluorinated materials applications (e.g. for electronics (battery conducting salts and electrolyte additives, coatings, surface, Photovoltaics, smart glass applications, GWP/ODP free refrigerants and heat transfer fluids). Strategic evaluation of partners for collaborations. Project management, environmental and cost benchmark of synthesis routes. Leader in number of patent applications of entire Solvay group (not only Solvay Fluor GmbH, my former employer) listed in CAS until end of 2017. Author of the "LIfe Science Chapter" in the newest book about Fluorine Chemistry (Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-12-803740-9) published in 2017 and called "Modern Synthesis Processes and Reaktivity of Fluorinated Compounds". Title chapter 2 (M.Braun/J.Eicher): "The Fluorine atom in Health Care and Agrochemical Applications". This chapter contains many industrial synthesis routes as well as numerous examples for fluorinated active ingredients.
Global Leading Expert for Industrial Fluorinations. New synthesis route development as well as process improvement, transfer to production and start up. International network of chemists, engineers and laboratories secure business success. Fluorination technologies: HF (100%), F2, fluorinating agents, SF4, building block chemistry, microreactor chemistry, Electrofluorination (ECF), Enzyme Chemistry. Business segments: Agro, Pharma, Electronics (battery conducting salts and addidives), fluorinated plastics, heat transfer fluids, foam blowing agents and refrigerants. Improvement of customer's projects as well as own developments (IP licencing).
Author of the "LIfe Science Chapter" in the newest book about Fluorine Chemistry (Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-12-803740-9) published in 2017 and called "Modern Synthesis Processes and Reaktivity of Fluorinated Compounds". Title chapter 2 (M.Braun/J.Eicher): "The Fluorine atom in Health Care and Agrochemical Applications". This chapter contains many industrial synthesis routes as well as numerous examples for fluorinated active ingredients. Accordig to SCI-finder database, Max (Josef) Braun is the leader as the inventor of the most individual number of patents for not only Solvay Fluor GmbH, but also for the entire Solvay group including the Business Unit "Special Chem"; probably also leader in the number of applied patents including "blocking patents". Thanks to Solvay for providing this very fruitful scientific environement for all these inventions. Current job activity: Analysis of active ingredients and intermediates, team brainstormings, route scouting, economic evaluations, technology comparison. In Europe certainly among the leaders in synthetic organic fluorine chemistry (26 years job experience), well known in both, the academic as well as in the industrial world.
After Solvay's re-structuring (separation of essentials from specialties business), responsible for all R&D-projects linked to Organic Chemistry (with and without fluorine) within the Global Business Unit "Solvay Chemical Specialty". Business Areas: Agro, Pharma, Electronics, Energy (incl. Li-Batteries, Organic Electronics and Organic Photovoltaics). Certainly among the global leading industrial experts for all fluorination technologies.