Prof M Rademeyer

Tel:             012 420-2511

Email:        [email protected]

Office:        NW1 3-40

Position:    Associate Professor

Academic qualifications: BSc(RAU), Hons(RAU), MSc(RAU), PhD (Chemistry)(RAU)

Teaching:

Physical Chemistry: Quantum Chemistry & Statistical Thermodynamics

Modules: CMY382, CMY717

Research interests:

Crystal engineering and understanding of the role of non-covalent interactions in crystalline materials.

Functional ionic and coordination organic-inorganic hybrid materials.

 Magnetic properties of ionic- and coordination organic-inorganic hybrids.

Quantum mechanical modeling of materials, and property calculations.

Perovskite Solar Cells.

Materials Science research group webpage

Publications:

Beebeejaun-Boodoo, B. M. P., Erasmus, R., Rademeyer, M. Tetrahalometallate salts of N-(4-picolinium)-1,8-naphthalimide: structures and solid-state fluorescence, CrystEngComm (2018), 20, 4875 – 4887.
DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00292D

Richardson, A. D., Zirkman, T. J., Kebede, M. T., Landee, C. P., Rademeyer, Turnbull, M. M., Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties of a family of copper(II) complexes and salts of isoquinoline: (Isoquinoline)nCu(X)2 [X = Cl, Br] and (isoquinolinium)₂CuX₄(H­O)n [X = Cl, Br; n = 0,1], Polyhedron, (2018), 147, 106 – 119.
DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2018.03.018

DuBois, R. J., Landee, C. P., Rademeyer, M., Turnbull, M. M., 2-Chloro-3-fluoropyridine copper(II) complexes and the effect of structural changes on magnetic behaviour, Journal of Coordination Chemistry, (2018).
DOI:10.1080/00958972.2018.1527323

Slabbert, C., Rademeyer, M., The MX₂L_x matrices, with M = Zn²⁺, Cd²⁺, Hg²⁺, X = Cl^-, Br^-, I^- and L = pyrazine, quinoxaline, phenazine, Journal of Coordination Chemistry (2017), 70, 676 – 695.
DOI: 10.1080/00958972.2016.1263390

Rademeyer, M., van der Westhuizen, B., Salts of 4-aminobutyric acid and 6-aminohexanoic acid behaving as molecular Velcro, CrystEngComm (2017), 19, 6821 - 6836.
DOI: 10.1039/C7CE01597F

Slabbert, C., Rademeyer, M., Structures and trends of neutral MX_xsolvent_4−x tetrahedra and anionic [MX4]2− tetrahalometallates of zinc(II), cadmium(II) and mercury(II) with benzopyridine- and benzopyrazine-type N-donor ligands or cations, CrystEngComm, (2016), 18, 4555 – 4579.

Slabbert, C., Rademeyer, M., One-dimensional halide-bridged polymers of metal cations with mono-heterocyclic donor ligands or cations: A review correlating chemical composition, connectivity and chain conformation. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, (2015), 288, 18 – 49.

Slabbert, C., Rademeyer, M., Structures and trends of one-dimensional halide-bridged polymers of five-coordinate cadmium(II) and mercury(II) with benzopyridine and –pyrazine type N-donor ligands , CrystEngComm, (2015), 17, 9070 – 9096.

Rademeyer, M., Turnbull, M. M., Landee, C. P., Kunene, M., Liles, D. C., Crystal structure and magnetic properties of catena-poly[bromide[trans(1S,2S)/(1R,2R)-cyclohexane-1,2-diamine copper(II)]-mu3-bromido]. Solid State Sciences, (2012), 14, 1106-1110.

Rademeyer, M., Tsouris, C., Billing, D. G., Lemmerer, A., Charmant, J., Robust motifs in 2-phenylethylammonium and related tetrahalometallates. CrystEngComm, (2011), 13, 3485-3497.