Daniela Bezuidenhout

 Dr D Bezuidenhout
 

Dr Bezuidenhout now works at the 
University of the Witwatersrand
(from 1 October 2016)

 

Tel:      +27 (0)12-420-3772 (UP Chemistry Secretary)
 

Position:   Senior Lecturer
Academic qualificationsPhD

Research interests:  Organometallic synthesis and carbene chemistry for application in catalysis and materials.

Selected publications

Journal articles
 

(1) Synthesis, characterization and structural studies of multimetallic ferrocenyl carbene complexes of Group VII transition metals, D.I. Bezuidenhout, S. Lotz, M. Landman, D.C. Liles, Inorg. Chem. 50, (2011) 1521-1533.

(2) Multimetal Fischer carbene complexes of Group VI transition metals: synthesis, structure and substituent effect investigation, D.I. Bezuidenhout, W. Barnard, B. van der Westhuizen and D.C. Liles, Dalton Trans. 40 (2011) 6711-6721.

(3) Invited paper: Recent advances in the field of multicarbene and multimetal carbene complexes of the Fischer-type, D.I. Bezuidenhout, S. Lotz, D.C. Liles, B. van der Westhuizen, Coord. Chem. Rev. 256 (2012) 479-524.

(4) Electrochemical illumination of thienyl and ferrocenyl chromium(0) Fischer carbene complexes, B. van der Westhuizen, P.J. Swarts, I. Strydom, D.C. Liles, I. Fernandez, J.C. Swarts, D.I. Bezuidenhout, Dalton Trans. 42 (2013) 5367-5378.

(5) Substituent effects on the electrochemical, spectroscopic, and structural properties of Fischer mono- and biscarbene complexes of chromium(0), B. van der Westhuizen, P.J. Swarts, L.M. van Jaarsveld, D.C. Liles, U. Siegert, J.C. Swarts, I. Fernandez, D.I. Bezuidenhout, Inorg. Chem. 52 (2013) 6674-6684.

(6) Metal-Metal Interaction in Fischer Carbene Complexes: A Study of Ferrocenyl and Biferrocenyl Tungsten Alkylidene Complexes, Belinda van der Westhuizen, J. Matthäus Speck, Marcus Korb, Joachim Friedrich, Daniela I. Bezuidenhout and Heinrich Lang,  Inorg. Chem. 52 (2013) 14253-14264.

(7) Electrochemical and computational study of tungsten(0) ferrocene complexes: observation of the mono-oxidized tungsten(0) ferrocenium species and intramolecular electronic interactions, Daniela I. Bezuidenhout, Israel Fernández, Belinda van der Westhuizen, Pieter J. Swarts, and Jannie C. Swarts, Organometallics 32 (2013) 7334-7344.

(8) Fischer-type gold(I) carbene complexes stabilized by aurophilic interactions. (Cited as a “Hot topic article”),  Daniela I. Bezuidenhout, Belinda van der Westhuizen, Amos J. Rosenthal, Michael Wörle, David C. Liles and Israel Fernández, Dalton Trans. 43 (2014) 398-401.

(9) Trends in the chemistry of mono- to multimetal π-arene complexes of chromium and manganese, D.I. Bezuidenhout, B. van der Westhuizen, N.A. van Jaarsveld, S. Lotz, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, 24 (2014) 39-57.

(10) Isolation of a potassium bis(1,2,3-triazol-5-ylidene)carbazolide: A stabilizing pincer ligand for reactive late transition metal complexes, Daniela I. Bezuidenhout, George Kleinhans, Gregorio Guisado-Barrios, David C. Liles, Gael Ung and Guy Bertrand, Chem. Comm. 50 ( 2014) 2431-2433.

(11) Redox behaviour of cymantrene Fischer carbene complexes in designing organometallic multi-tags, Daniela I. Bezuidenhout, Belinda van der Westhuizen, Pieter J. Swarts, Teshica Chatturgoon] Orde Q. Munro, Israel Fernández, and Jannie C. Swarts, Chem. Eur. J. 20(17) (2014) 4974-4985.

(12) Synthesis and electrochemical investigation of chromium(0) ferrocenyl-substituted carbene complexes, Daniela I. Bezuidenhout, Belinda van der Westhuizen, Ian Strydom, Pieter J. Swarts, Jannie C. Swarts, Israel Fernandez, Inorg. Chim. Acta,423 (2014) 184-192.

(13) (Spectro)electrochemical investigations on (ferrocenyl)thiophenes modified by tungsten Fischer carbenes, Belinda van der Westhuizen, J. Matthäus Speck, Marcus Korb, Daniela I. Bezuidenhout and Heinrich Lang, J. Organomet. Chem.772-773 (2014) 18-26.

 


Conference proceedings 

(1) Electronic interaction in thienyl, ferrocenyl and thioferrocenyl tungsten carbene complexes International Chemistry Conference in Africa, Pretoria, 7 – 12 July 2013

(2) Novel bis (mesoionic carbene)amido pincer ligands and their corresponding transition metal complexes: Design of (pre)-catalysts for application in  catalysis International Chemistry Conference in Africa, Pretoria, 7 – 12 July 2013 

(3) From Mono- to Tridentate Carbene ligands: Electronic Communication and Catalytic Applications Invited talk: SACI Inorganic Meeting, Durban, 30 June – 4 July 2013

(4) Controlled metal-metal communication of ferrocenyl carbene complexes, 4th EUCheMS International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-30 August 2012

(5) Novel N,N’-diarylated bis(mesoionic carbene) amido pincer ligands and applications of their transition metal complexes, 25th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Lisbon, Portugal, 2 – 7 September 2012

(6) Fischer carbene metal cluster complexes of Group VII transition metals 24th  International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Taipei, Taiwan, 18 – 23 July 2010

(7) Steric and electronic effects of metal-containing carbene substituents in Fischer carbene metal clusters SACI Inorganic Meeting, Bloemfontein, 13 – 18 September 2009

  

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