Prof. Dr. Catharine Esterhuysen

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation,Mineralogy, Crystallography,Software Engineering and Programming Languages
KeywordsIntermolecular interactions, Density functional theory, Energy Partitioning method, Structural chemistry

Current contact address

CountrySouth Africa
CityStellenbosch
InstitutionStellenbosch University
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry and Polymer Science

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gernot FrenkingFachbereich 15: Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg
Prof. Dr. Tim ClarkComputer-Chemie-Centrum, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2002

Programme(s)

2001Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2017Catharine Esterhuysen, Andreas Heßelmann, Timothy Clark Trifluoromethyl: an amphiphilic noncovalent bonding partner. In: ChemPhysChem, 2017, 772-784
2013Catharine Esterhuysen Gernot Frenking: Complexation behavior of two-coordinated carbon compounds containing fluorenyl ligands. In: Dalton Trans., 2013, 13349-13356
2011Catharine Esterhuysen; Gernot Frenking: Distinguishing Carbones from Allenes by Complexation to AuCl . In: CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL , 2011, 9944-9956
2005Attila Kovacs; Catharine Esterhuysen; Gernot Frenking: The Nature of the Chemical Bond Revisited: An Energy Partitioning Analysis of Nonpolar Bonds. In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 2005, 1813-1825
2004Catharine Esterhuysen; Gernot Frenking: The Nature of the Chemical Bond Revisited. An Energy Partitioning Analysis of Diatomic Molecules E2 (E = N - Bi, F - I), CO and BF. In: Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2004, 381-389
2003Catharine Esterhuysen; Gernot Frenking: Comparison of side-on and end-on coordination of E2 complexes of W(CO)5 (E = N, P, As, Sb, Bi, Si–, Ge–, Sn–, Pb–). In: Chemistry - a European Journal, 2003, 3518-3529