Eleanor Müller (Fourie) completed her M.Sc. in 2002 in Organic Chemistry at the University of the Free State, working on natural compounds. She obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 2008 working on metallocenyl-containing ligands and their rhodium complexes, with the focus being on electrochemistry, kinetics and biological properties.
She is a Senior lecturer in the Physical Chemistry, since July 2011. Her main research focus is organometallic and polymer chemistry with application as antineoplastic drugs. She has made research visits to the Polymer Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well as the University of Bristol. In order to streamline the drug delivery process, she has her own cell culture lab for drug testing. Thus all newly synthesized compounds are tested in-house as possible anti-cancer drugs.
Dr. Muller is an experienced lecturer in Physical Chemistry in the areas of Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Electrochemistry and heterogeneous chemistry.
Recent Publications
Swart, G., Fourie, E., Swarts, J.C.(2022) Octakis(dodecyl)phthalocyanines: Influence of Peripheral versus Non-Peripheral Substitution on Synthetic Routes, Spectroscopy and Electrochemical Behaviour. Molecules, 27(5), 1529
Swart, G, Fourie, E., Swarts, J.C. (2022) Ferrocene-Bearing Dodecylphthalocyanines: Synthesis, Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Behavior. Inorganic Chemistry 61 (34), 13306-13321.
Dennis, C.R., van Zyl, G.J., Fourie, E., Basson, S.S., Swarts, J.C. (2022) The oxidation of the uranium(IV)tetrachloride by the octacyanotungstate(V)and the octacyanomolybdate(V) ions in perchloric acid medium: A kinetic study. Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis.
P. J. Swarts, E. Erasmus, E. Fourie, Comparison of synthetic, spectroscopic, computational and electrochemical aspects of ferrocenyl-containing b-diketones,,b-ketoesters and b-ketoamides, Polyhedron 205 (2021) 115279.
F. J. F. Jacobs, G. J. S. Venter, E.Fourie, R. E. Kroon, A. Brink, Substitution reactivity and structural variability induced by tryptamine on the biomimetic rhenium tricarbonyl complex, RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 24443.
C. R. Dennis, G. J. van Zyl, E. Fourie, S. S. Basson, J. C. Swarts, A kinetic study of the oxidation of the tetrakisoxalatouranate(IV) ion by the hexacyanoferrate(III) ion in an oxalate buffer medium, Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis (2021) 132:599–615.
E. Fourie, Fluorene-containing ß-diketonato ligands and their Rhodium(I) complexes, Inorganica Chimica Acta 517 (2021) 120209.
C. R. Dennis, G. J. van Zyl, E. Fourie, A kinetic study of the oxidation of the tetrakisoxalatouranate(IV) ion by the octacyanotungstate(V) and the octacyanomolybdate(V) ions in an acidic oxalate buffer medium, Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis (2021) 134:615–627.
E. Fourie, Data for the synthesis and characterization of fluorene-containing ß-diketonato ligands and their rhodium(I) complexes, Data in Brief 35 (2021) 106933.
J. T. R. Fiekkies, E. Fourie, E. Erasmus, Cisplatin-functionalized nanodiamonds: preparation and characterization, with potential antineoplastic application, Applied Nanoscience volume 11, pages2235–2245 (2021).